I first wrote about Carie Charlesworth’s story here. Carie’s teaching contract at Holy Trinity Catholic School was not renewed for the 2013-2014 academic year because Carie is the victim of domestic abuse. I find this to be a...
Read MoreLectionary 96 Zec 12:10-11; 13:1 Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Gal 3:26-29 Lk 9:18-24 The prosperity gospel, popularized by preachers like Joel Osteen and Bruce Wilkinson, teaches that Christianity is the ticket to physical health and...
Read MoreThe field of bioethics is a little poorer this week as it mourns the death of Edmund Pellegrino, MD who died on June 13th at the age of 92. Dr. Pellegrino served as the president of the Catholic University of America from 1978...
Read MoreA few weeks ago, The Washington Post ran the article “Join Wall Street. Save the World”. It was about individuals taking high paying jobs—in finance or banking for example—so that they could donate more money to those in...
Read More…at least according to this NPR essay. Quoting David Campbell, Notre Dame poli sci prof: “Our findings indicate that for many but not all Americans, when they’re faced with this choice between their politics...
Read MoreBeen working for the church While your life falls apart, Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart, Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a home. -from “Intervention” by Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) I...
Read MoreFrom May 30 to June 2, the College Theology Society gathered on the campus of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska for its fifty-ninth annual convention. I first presented a paper at a CTS convention back in 2003 and, with...
Read MoreOn this blog and in Catholic moral discourse more generally, there have been a considerable number of critiques of libertarian principles on the basis that they directly conflict with Catholic social doctrine. I have been...
Read MoreI just returned from the CTSA’s Sixty-Eighth Annual Convention in Miami Florida. It was my first. Since my days in graduate school (over a decade ago), I had long labored under the impression that the organization was...
Read More2 Sam 12:7-10, 13 Psalm 32 Galatians 2:16, 19-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 Martin Luther is famous, and frequently criticized, for encouraging Melancthon to “sin boldly!” What is less frequently quoted is what follows:...
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