My colleague Brad Gregory forwarded me a fascinating piece by William Saletan of Slate.com on the ethics of twin-reduction abortions. The piece is a response to a debate that has been raging across the “pro-choice...
Read MoreA few months ago the death of Osama Bin Laden, and especially the appropriateness of the US government’s decisions on what to do with his body, raised questions about the significance of the deceased human body in Islam, and...
Read MoreIn a National Catholic Reporter article by John Allen, Fr. Thomas Weinandy from the USCCB spoke against the problems he sees in contemporary American theology. Theologians are a: ‘curse and affliction upon the...
Read MoreAs some of you may know, blog contributor David Cloutier had the opportunity to review Matt Levering’s book Betrayal of Charity in collaboration with patheos.com a couple weeks ago (here). To go alongside his review, I...
Read MoreTwenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 121 Is 22:19-23 Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8 Rom 11:33-36 Mt 16:13-20 August is a special time of year for those involved in university life. Summer is coming to an end. Students are...
Read MoreOne has only to look at the varying roles that Facebook and Twitter played in the protests that spread across Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya to recognize the power of social media sites. The rioters in Britain also used these...
Read MoreThough it appears few are paying attention (and perhaps understandably so), the Church continues to claim to anyone who will listen that many of our sexual practices today not only turn our partners into objects of our pleasure...
Read MoreImagine a libertarian Christianity, which urged individuals to give away as much of their property as possible to the poor, to forget about the sex lives of their neighbors and focus on their own, to pray more than politic and...
Read MoreLectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 14, 2011 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28 The processional hymn for our wedding nine years ago was “Gather...
Read MoreMy friend, John Donaghy, who used to do campus ministry at Iowa State University and now is a lay missioner with the Catholic diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, reminds us that on this date in 1943 “Blessed Franz...
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