In 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...
Read MoreGenerating facebook buzz is a video played at the Democratic National Convention, headlined by the memorable tag “government is the only thing we all belong to.” A simple message of civic inclusiveness and unity, desperately...
Read MoreI’ll say one thing about the nomination of Rep. Paul Ryan for the vice-presidential slot: it has produced some of the most telling exchanges about the details of Catholic thought, especial Catholic social thought, that we have...
Read MoreOver at America, Michael O’Loughlin has an interesting post on Paul Ryan’s home bishop – Bishop Robert Morlino, of Madison – coming out and saying that bishops should not comment one way or the other on the Ryan budget. Bishop...
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