When my friends from New Wineskins first started talking about a Catholic Moral Theology blog a few summers ago, I tried to talk them out of it. I remember a Sunday morning conversation at the end of a stimulating weekend. We...
Read MoreI own a lot of books. This is the common student impression when they walk into my office. I’m pretty convinced that books matter for the theological tradition. And here I am, writing a blog post, wondering if I am furthering...
Read MoreJeremiah 3131-34 Psalm 51 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 It is a constant struggle to write about Scripture and morality without coming across as “preachy” or moralistic; and yet at the same time there is a beautiful...
Read MoreUPDATE: Irony. When this essay was initially posted, the paragraph where I reflect on the past twelve months made it seem that I thought some of my friends’ posts here were “bad blogging” – which was not...
Read MoreOn 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 MoreThis 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 MoreIn 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 MoreI’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 MoreThis 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 MoreAs 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...
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