“There must be some limit to the burden of remembering that we impose on our children and grandchildren. They have a world of their own, of which we should be less and less part.” This is one of the many phrases that...
Read MoreAs an undergraduate at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, I used to run the “chapel trail” through the woods around Lake Sagatagan. On the way we would pass a statue of Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680),...
Read MoreReadings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The return to Ordinary Time offers us an opportunity to get back to the basics of the Christian journey – in this case, the fundamental task...
Read MoreSuperb exchange going on over at dotCommonweal over a post about how certain political conservatives, like Rick Santorum or Michael Gerson, try to reconcile their Catholicism with the neoliberal paradigm. For once, even the...
Read MoreAt the recent annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, I had the opportunity to be the author at a Breakfast with an Author table with seven other SCE members who foolishly committed to join me for food and...
Read MoreLast week, Target very subtly and without comment included a little boy with Down Syndrome among its models in one of its weekly ads. The scene shows 5 happy kids happily playing in their Target-purchased clothes. It’s so...
Read MoreLast weekend, many of us here at catholicmoraltheology.com gathered in Washington, DC for the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics. One of the wonderful things about SCE meetings is that it is a chance for many...
Read MoreFor a long time, North American Catholic moral theologians have lacked a specific journal in which to carry out their research. There are outstanding ethics journals, like the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, but the...
Read More“Embryonic Stem Cell” it seems is the password which justifies just about any laboratory pursuit, no matter how repugnant. Scientists have just created what seems to be the first chimeric monkeys all in the name of...
Read MoreIs. 60:1-6 Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6 Mt 2:1-12 This Sunday is the Feast of Epiphany, the conclusion of the Twelve Days of Christmas which commemorates the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate God, to the...
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