A Wide Space for Prudence
The recently released, “On All of Our Shoulders,” which criticizes VP candidate Paul Ryan’s use of Catholic Social Teaching, was signed by over 150 Catholic theologians. While I disagree with critics who...
Read MoreNew Evangelization Synod and Moral Theology
Of the many significant events occurring in this year which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, it is worth noting the Synod on the New Evangelization that Pope Benedict has...
Read MoreShared Grace: Encountering Vatican II at a Methodist College
I decided to join the Catholic Church in 1999, during my sophomore year at Hendrix College, a Methodist college in central Arkansas. The college required students to take two religion courses, and so in my freshman year I took a...
Read MoreIs the “On All of Our Shoulders” Statement Partisan?
For many, including an apparently very upset Robert George, the answer to the above question is obvious: of course it is. Such partisanship is demonstrated by what he calls a “deplorable attack” and...
Read MoreCatholicism Has Become a Political Prop: Musings on the VP Debate and the Year of Faith
As expected, the vice-presidential debate tonight included a question on what being Catholic means to each of the candidates. What I did not expect was that the question as asked would tie Catholic faith so exclusively to...
Read MoreGood Paul Ryan and Bad Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan, like all of us, gets a number of things right and a number of things wrong. Let’s start with “good” Paul Ryan. Isn’t it great to have a conservative Catholic politician (or, quite frankly, a...
Read More50 Years Ago Today
It was 50 years ago today when Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council. 50 years ago today, no one writing on this blog was born (or if they were, they were infants). For us, Vatican II is a “given.” I read various...
Read More28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wis 7:7-11 Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Heb 4:12-13 Mk 10:17-30 You may have heard of the New Evangelization, an effort within the Church to “re-propose the Gospel to those who have experienced a crisis of faith.” The...
Read MoreTwo Parties, One Church? The Perils of Catholicism and Politics (UPDATED)
Today, a group of Catholic theologians and scholars released a statement raising concerns about a profound and ongoing problem: the absence of a clear understanding of Catholic Social Teaching in American political discourse....
Read MoreNot Voting (Dem or Rep): A Rising Revolution?
Edited to clarify: This post is now in more mainstream news outlets and I have noticed that some people are coming to this post and reading quite a bit into “grave moral evils” and the two major political parties....
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