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 MoreI 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 MoreFor 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 MoreAs 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 MorePaul 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 MoreIt 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 MoreWis 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 MoreToday, 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 MoreEdited 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....
Read MoreThe famous words at the beginning of Albert Camus’ 1942 essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe still strike a chord: “there is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.” The power to deliberate on the question of...
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