Pope Benedict XVI, upon his arrival in Mexico [English links from Vatican transcript] on Friday,said that his goal in this apostolic visit was to encourage Mexican Catholics to “revitalize their faith” so that they...
Read MoreEver since I read Paolo Coehlo’s The Pilgrimage, I have been fascinated by the Camino de Santiago de Compostella (The Way of St James) pilgrimage in Spain. This allure of a 500 mile walk through the Pyrenees and Spain has only...
Read MoreI committed to this post a while ago, and I thought I would likely write a bit about the joy of sharing a project such as this with a community of friends and fellow-scholars, or perhaps about some of the founding hopes and...
Read MoreWhen 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...
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