This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, following immediately in the wake of the great feast of Pentecost which we celebrated last week. We now find ourselves at an endpoint of sorts in the liturgical year,...
Read MoreHuman Acts (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Four) Human actions are crucial for any moral theology because it is through a human being’s free actions (and free actions = human actions, properly understood) that...
Read MoreThe origins of Memorial Day date to the years immediately following the American Civil War when Americans honored the war dead of the North and the South by placing flowers on their tombstones. (The original name of the holiday...
Read MoreWhen President Obama made public his support for same sex marriage, he spoke of conversations with his daughters and about interactions with staff members and friends who are in same sex relationships. Like the President, many...
Read More(A guest post from Kelly Johnson, associate professor in the theology department at University of Dayton. Kelly would like to thank Todd Whitmore, Jana Bennett, and David Cloutier for helpful conversations on the topic.) In...
Read More(As I wrote this post, I imagined as my interlocutor the many people who have said to me, online or in person, things like, “Boy, you Catholics are on a roll with the pelvic issues. Time to move on.”) You think...
Read MoreAccording to a Gallup Poll released on Wednesday, a strikingly low number of Americans–now down to only 41%–describe themselves as pro-choice. To put it in perspective, this number was at 56% in 1996. Frustratingly...
Read MoreThe debate the Catholic Church in particular and our society in general should be having concerning whether two persons in love with one another and who possess a homosexual orientation should marry was, for a brief, shining...
Read MoreCourtesy of Meghan Clark – Thanks, Meg! Acts 2: 1-11 Ps 104:1, 24,29-30,31,34 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 My notion of Pentecost was forever changed eight years ago when I...
Read MoreDavid Cloutier’s post on the legalization of civil marriage for same sex couples rightly raises the question of whether opposition to civil marriage for same sex couples can be grounded by reasons that are both intelligible and...
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