Dear Kind Readers, Any who follow my posts have likely have noticed a recurring theme concerning the criminalization and marginalization of the poor. And while I do not mean to repeat myself, I cannot but raise attention to a...
Read MoreYesterday, I had a student drop by office hours to get some help on his midterm study guide. “I looked the terms you gave us up on the internet,” he explained, “but I was confused on a couple.” “You...
Read MoreTwenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 45:1,4-6; Ps 96: 1,3,4-5,7-8,9-10; 1 Thes 1:1-5b; Mt 22: 15-21 “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” (Mt 22:17) This episode from Matthew’s gospel is a familiar one...
Read MoreThere were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In...
Read MoreIn Chapter 4 of his Rule for the monastic life, St. Benedict writes a list of the “Instruments of Good Works,” a simple yet beautiful list of 61 actions and attitudes that foster and sustain a life in pursuit of...
Read MoreSaturday 10/15 was the first anniversary of the ‘Open Hearts, Open Minds’ Princeton Abortion Conference–a historic gathering that brought a wildly diverse group of people together to find new ways to think and...
Read MoreThis past weekend, the Montana Catholic Conference hosted a two-day “Affirming the Culture of Life Conference.” In light of Jana Bennett’s recent post on the death penalty and abortion, this conference was a...
Read More***NOTE: This roundtable will include posts by multiple Catholicmoraltheology bloggers. Please check back for additions to the body of the text. Recent discussions of issues like capital punishment have raised what has become a...
Read MoreGuest musings by MT Dávila, Andover Newton Theological School “Neither individuals nor nations should regard the possession of more and more goods as the ultimate objective. Every kind of progress is a two-edged sword. It is...
Read MoreMonths ago, I posted on the worsening and crisis conditions at the Dadaab refugee camp on the border between Somalia and Kenya. The famine ravaging East Africa is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Back in August,...
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