A fight is brewing in New York, and women’s social equality is going to be the first casualty. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a 10 point Plan that is to be the Women’s Equity Act. Now lets take a look at his...
Read MoreIt’s a simple question, but one that is notoriously difficult to answer. I usually start the first day of my “Christian Morality” class by asking my students to journal about what their vision of happiness is,...
Read MoreA few days ago our own Beth Haile did a wonderful post on how, 40 years after Roe, we are now finally starting to come to terms with the fact that the choice to have an abortion has not lead to anything like control over...
Read MoreThe Institute for American Values recently issued A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage. The current conversation, the 74 signers say, is going nowhere and children deserve better. It is not yet clear if Catholics will...
Read MoreJer 1:4-5, 17-19 Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 or 13:4-13 Lk 4:21-30 In Lectionary C, we wind our way through the gospel of Luke. One of the major motifs in Luke is that Jesus is the innocent and rejected prophet....
Read MoreWe need to renew our parishes. In two earlier posts, I argued that our politics and economics often defines us more than the gospel and that the widespread breakdown of community life in our culture makes it difficult for...
Read MoreThis guest post by Kent Lasnoski, Assistant Professor of Theology at Quincy University, is particularly appropriate given that in yesterday’s Gospel reading we are told of Jesus proclaiming his mission to “set the...
Read MoreI discovered Thomas Aquinas as a teenager. I grew up in the south, in the heart of the Bible belt where faith was biblical or else it wasn’t faith. In middle and high school, debates raged not only among the parents but...
Read MoreAt least some parts of the Catholic priesthood have suffered from and continue to suffer from arrogance and “hubris,” and that this drives people away from the faith. Among some younger priests and seminarians, the preoccupation...
Read MoreIn recent months, the Catholic activist Dorothy Day has received ample praise in both the Catholic and secular press. Of course, the reason is that last November, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops endorsed the...
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