Guest Post by Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics at Fordham University. Satire has been a salve for many Americans in the past week. Witness The Onion’s rapidly re-tweeted...
Read MoreIt has been quite a week in Boston: explosions, deaths, maimings, and other injuries at the marathon; acts of heroism and pulling together in the mayhem that followed; an interfaith service that included a visit from President...
Read MoreIs there a way to give an account of phone gluttony? I have long thought we Catholics don’t pay nearly enough time to thinking through the moral importance of technology use, despite the clear injunctions in Pope John Paul...
Read MoreStrange times for marriage, huh? Two cases regarding the legal recognition of gay marriage are before the Supreme Court. Princeton alumna Susan Patton told women at Princeton to spend their time finding a mate. While some were...
Read MoreActs 13:14, 43-52 Psalm 100 Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:27-30 In the beginning of the book of Revelation there is a sevenfold series of messages to the churches of Asia minor and each message ends with a promise offered to...
Read MoreI spent the last week in Australia giving a few presentations, but I was able to follow the Twitter explosion over the lack of coverage of the Gosnell trial and (some) subsequent media mea culpa for not covering the trial as...
Read MoreIt is refreshing indeed to finally see some media coverage of Kermit Gosnell. Most major media outlets have been silent on the case despite its gruesome nature. I love Kirsten Powers on this point, Let me state the obvious. This...
Read MoreI have spent the last year training for the Pittsburgh Half-Marathon. I am not your typical runner. I did not run distance in high school or college. I am short and a bit square. Two years ago I went to watch the Pittsburgh...
Read MoreThe Servant of God Fr. Emil Kapuan was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor today by President Obama, making him the fifth Catholic chaplain to receive this award, the highest military honor given by the US government. Fr....
Read MoreApril 11th is the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s social encyclical Pacem in terris. Coincidentally, I reread it this week with graduate students taking my Social Ethics course, and it generated some thoughts and...
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