Readings for Sunday, July 3, 2011 ~ Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Zec 9:9-10; Ps 145; Rom 8:9,11-13; Mt 11:25-30 We think about bodies all the time: abused bodies, diseased bodies, female bodies, male bodies, variously...
Read MoreMany of us in the Theology Department at the University of Scranton have just recently returned from a week-long trip to the Holy Land which was very generously sponsored and organized by the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies...
Read MoreA new blog of interest to our readers: Daily Theology They begin with an “invitation to conversation”: As the header says, our aim here is faith seeking understanding in everyday life. We hope to examine questions...
Read MoreDavid Gibson has a post at Commonweal highlighting a story about Roman Catholic Belmont Abbey College breaking ground on a campus pregnancy and aftercare maternity home called “Room at the Inn.” Fulfilling both its...
Read MoreKenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., in his article, “Intervention, Just War, and U.S. National Security,” which appeared in Theological Studies 65 (2004): 141-157, observed: “As has often been the case with jus in bello deliberations, the...
Read More“Slavery doesn’t exist anymore, but marriage is forever.” Fuming after a sermon on Paul’s Letter to the Romans insisting on proper gender roles, my grandmother and I got into an heated discussion with her...
Read MoreJoe Carter over at First Things has a post up this morning which claims, in rather strong terms, that Christians should not seriously engage with Peter Singer. Indeed, for him, doing so is “silliness.” Carter begins...
Read MoreBeginning September 2012, the Food and Drug Administration will require cigarette companies to include larger, more graphic warnings on cigarette packaging and advertisements. This marks the first major change in cigarette...
Read MoreHere’s a further continuation of the progressive-libertarian debate between my cousin and I. Steve: For your reference, before I leave I wanted to get this out to you. It’s easy to look at & target the defense...
Read MoreDana Dillon has offered some initial comment on the Wal-Mart discrimination case, which seems quite important to anyone who cares about issues of justice. In the New York Times article on the case, Justice Antonin Scalia,...
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