The 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...
Read MoreFor some time now, younger Catholic moral theologians have been discussing how the issues of concern to them are different from those of the immediate post-Vatican II generation that dominated the theological discourse for many...
Read MoreAs promised, I have posted Part 2 over at Political Theology’s There’s Power in the Blog. The Circumstance of Unmet Need: Part II on Aquinas and the Moral Evaluation of a Budget Offering examples of how...
Read MoreIn a wonderful comment on Michael Sean Winters’s post responding to Bishop Paprocki, one writer uses a phrase I will keep for a long time. He says that “prudential judgment” and “the primacy of conscience” are “two doors to the...
Read MoreTomorrow is one of my favorite feasts of the whole liturgical year: that which celebrates the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. (Raphael, in the opinion of this bioethicist at least, has one of the best monikers of all...
Read MoreWhether or not MN’s marriage amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman passes in November, the Roman Catholic Church has already lost. Here’s why: The dominant cultural and political paradigm...
Read MoreSince the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate there have been many attempts by Catholics of republican sympathies and a handful of bishops to support and promote Ryan’s status as a “good Catholic” over and against...
Read MoreNumbers 11:25-29 Psalm 19 James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 Jesus’ words in the gospel reading this Sunday are jarring, to say the least. If put in the form of a dialogue, they become almost comical: “Does your hand cause you...
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, MO became the first U.S. bishop to be held accountable for the child abuse by priests. Though I regret the lateness of this post, I did not think that this event should go by...
Read MoreI just wanted to alert our readers that I have posted a new blog over at Political Theology Journal’s There’s power in the blog examining the role of government, human rights, and Gov. Romney’s statements about...
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