Occupy Catholics
On this our first anniversary, I’d like to point our readers to another new Catholic venture on the internet: OCCUPY CATHOLICS While Occupy Boston has had a significant Catholic presences, Occupy Wall Street has been...
Read Moreby Meghan Clark | Mar 19, 2012 | Current Events | 0
On this our first anniversary, I’d like to point our readers to another new Catholic venture on the internet: OCCUPY CATHOLICS While Occupy Boston has had a significant Catholic presences, Occupy Wall Street has been...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Mar 19, 2012 | Current Events | 0
This is a guest post contributed by prominent Catholic blogger Michael Sean Winters, of NCR online, who has graciously agreed to kick off a week-long series of posts on theology/ethics and blogging to celebrate of our first...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Events | 0
In recent weeks many people, including students, have asked me what I think about armed intervention in Syria. I must confess that the deaths of the Syrian people at the hands of their government’s troops (UN estimates are...
Read Moreby Dana Dillon | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Events | 6
I’m really grateful that I came across Bryce Covert’s article “Why Employers Should Want Their Workers Using Contraception.” It really puts out there, quite clearly and quite succinctly, the argument...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Events | 3
This series seeks to illuminate the issues of an election year by engaging the US bishops’ document Faithful Citizenship, in a wide range of ways. Rather than take on a specific issue in this first entry, I want to step back and...
Read Moreby Meghan Clark | Mar 14, 2012 | Current Events | 7
As a society, we are becoming more and more technology dependent. Innovations like facebook, twitter, iphone, ipad, and so on have begun blurring the lines between reality and “virtual reality.” Just as earlier...
Read Moreby Beth Haile | Mar 12, 2012 | Lectionary | 1
2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. Eph 2:4-10 Jn 3:14-21 “For God so loved the world . . .” John 3:16 is probably the most well-known, most widely-used Bible verse out there. People hold it up on posters at sporting...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Mar 12, 2012 | Current Events | 0
I’m encouraged by the news that Panera Foundation will be opening more of its “suggested donations” stores. Pay-as-you-can cafes appear to be a new trend, launched by Denise Cerreta of One World Everybody Eats...
Read Moreby Jason King | Mar 9, 2012 | Current Events | 3
When I was in graduate school, I made the off hand comment to my roommate about how McDonald’s runs Filet-o-Fish specials every year during Lent. My roommate, a life long Methodist, was totally surprised by this revelation. He...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Mar 9, 2012 | Current Events | 0
We have decided to add a regular feature to this blog, at least through the end of this election year: Faithful Citizenship Fridays. “Faithful Citizenship” refers to the document the USCCB approved in 2007, and...
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