The recent quarreling over Paul Ryan and “On All of Our Shoulders” can sometimes veer close to name-calling, and worse, a kind of scandalous dismissal of fellow members of the Body of Christ (in public!). As someone...
Read MoreIt was 50 years ago today when Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council. 50 years ago today, no one writing on this blog was born (or if they were, they were infants). For us, Vatican II is a “given.” I read various...
Read MoreToday, a group of Catholic theologians and scholars released a statement raising concerns about a profound and ongoing problem: the absence of a clear understanding of Catholic Social Teaching in American political discourse....
Read MoreIn a wonderful comment on Michael Sean Winters’s post responding to Bishop Paprocki, one writer uses a phrase I will keep for a long time. He says that “prudential judgment” and “the primacy of conscience” are “two doors to the...
Read More(The following is a guest post from Dr. Holly Taylor-Coolman, who teaches at Providence College.) Last week, in the midst of ongoing, pre-election political debate, the Church quietly marked again the feast day of a remarkable...
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