Gail Collins and David Brooks have a very illuminating exchange on the ongoing controversy over the contraception mandate. Brooks is, as you might expect, rather astonished at the “absolutist” stance taken by the Obama...
Read MoreReadings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The return to Ordinary Time offers us an opportunity to get back to the basics of the Christian journey – in this case, the fundamental task...
Read MoreSuperb exchange going on over at dotCommonweal over a post about how certain political conservatives, like Rick Santorum or Michael Gerson, try to reconcile their Catholicism with the neoliberal paradigm. For once, even the...
Read MoreFor a long time, North American Catholic moral theologians have lacked a specific journal in which to carry out their research. There are outstanding ethics journals, like the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, but the...
Read MoreWhen some speak of a “crisis of morality” and a disobedience to the Church’s moral teachings, they point to sexual ethics. But a perusal of the Catechism’s treatment of property and economics suggests that we are afflicted with...
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