How much do you really know about the day-to-day struggles of the poor in the U.S.? If, like me, you find yourself comfortably in the middle class, you might find it difficult to understand the worldview of a person in...
Read MoreThe decision of the New York state legislature to approve gay marriage will be seen by some as a symptom of an underlying disease called “moral relativism.” But this is a mistake that, I think, blocks our understanding of what...
Read MoreMany atheist utilitarians have long resisted any concept of objectivity in ethics, in part because they do not have any metaphysical beliefs which are capable of grounding such claims. But with the release of Parfit’s On...
Read MoreReadings 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...
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