Exodus 24:3-8 Psalm 116 Hebrews 9:11-15 Mark 14:12-16, 24-26 As a self-identifying Thomist, I love this Solemnity. Thomas Aquinas composed the liturgy for Corpus Christi, writing his famous Pange Lingua for this purpose. As a...
Read MoreThis morning the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published a notification stating that Margaret A. Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (Continuum 2006),...
Read MoreThe Sixth Commandment “you shall not commit adultery” pertains not only to sexual infidelity but encompasses the whole of human sexuality (2336), and is thus perhaps the most controversial commandment among the...
Read MoreThis 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...
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