Earlier this week, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief justice Stuart J. Rabner, wrote in 134-page unanimous court decision that the test for reliability of eyewitness testimony should be revised. The Court acknowledged a...
Read MoreNo, this is not a post for fans of the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Lions, Toronto Maple Leafs, or other sad sack teams who live in cold mid-western climates. It is in response to the recent deaths of a...
Read MoreThe dark side of the American Dream narrative is a propensity to blame the poor for their poverty. It is the illusion and delusion that the United States of America is a meritocracy where everyone is treated fairly and anyone...
Read MoreReadings for Sunday, August 28, 2011 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jer 20:7-9; Ps 63: 2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27 The challenges posed by suffering can be addressed pastorally or they might be treated...
Read MoreUpdate June 2013: For a longer and revised version of this post, go to: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236008418_Are_We_Addicted_to_the_Suffering_of_Animals_Animal_Cruelty_and_the_Catholic_Moral_Tradition?ev=prf_pub or...
Read MoreIts been a rough day for many who follow bioethics news. Our vice-President made us all proud by ‘fully understanding’ and ‘not second-guessing’ China’s disturbingly violent and anti-woman...
Read MoreOver at the Chronicle of Higher Education is a special issue reflecting on “An Era of Ideas” To mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, The Chronicle Review asked a group of influential thinkers to...
Read MoreFr. Tom Weinandy’s speech labeling many theologians a curse has received a great deal of discussion our our website (see Dana Dillon’s post Against Divisiveness) and across the blogosphere. For those who have been...
Read MoreI bought my daughter the New Picture Book of Saints (1962, reprinted in 1974, 1979, and 1988) at the Borders that is going out of business. I didn’t really look at it carefully until we got home. Unfortunately, all sales are...
Read MoreEven a cursory glance at other reviews for this book reveal that that it is destined to become a classic of historical moral theology. And despite his recently making calls for theological ethicists to write in more creative...
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