Dr. Rubio is one of our new correspondents at Catholicmoraltheology.com. We are pleased she is taking the time to join in the ongoing conversations. A new study put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for...
Read MoreIn his 2011 plenary address to the Academy of Catholic Theology, published in the 7/21/11 volume of Origins, Fr. Thomas Weinandy said, among other provocative claims: “Given the bankruptcy of so much modern and...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post from Holly Taylor Coolman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. Last week, the New York Times addressed an issue in the world of reproductive ethics that many readers had probably...
Read MoreI’ve just returned from participating in the second gathering of the formerly-Fordham-now-Catholic Conversation Project. This year’s gathering in Dover, Massachusetts, hosted about 15 pre-tenure Catholic scholars in...
Read MoreMy 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...
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