We have decided to add a regular feature to this blog, at least through the end of this election year: Faithful Citizenship Fridays. “Faithful Citizenship” refers to the document the USCCB approved in 2007, and...
Read MoreAll of us who contribute to this blog, along with a fair number of our readers, are also teachers. It can be difficult to discuss the church’s teachings on economic justice to college students who are often from more...
Read MoreToday’s announcement from the White House perhaps offers a compromise in the complexities of church/state relations. I am sure that there will continue to be responses to this new move in the days to come, but initially it...
Read MoreOne of the commenters at Beth’s post on the HHS decision regarding contraception asks: How consistent or heathy is it for a religion like Catholicism, which views persons and personhood differently from a secular American...
Read More“There must be some limit to the burden of remembering that we impose on our children and grandchildren. They have a world of their own, of which we should be less and less part.” This is one of the many phrases that...
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