Those Catholic moral theologians who know the history of their field will no doubt have heard of the manualist tradition. Manuals, the guides developed through the years for priests hearing confession, are often examined as...
Read MoreThe annual symposium of New Wine, New Wineskins has been formative for many Catholic moral theologians in the past 17 years; it has forged many friendships, (mostly) friendly arguments, and scholarly collaboration. In honor of...
Read MoreThis image appears in the 1941 “My Sunday Missal Explained,” Confraternity of the Precious Blood (Brooklyn), original copyright 1938. (This was my grandmother’s missal.) As a cradle Catholic raised in the...
Read MoreIn recent years, there has been a trend toward what is called “positive psychology.” In brief, the point of positive psychology is to examine what makes people happy or fulfilled, rather than focusing upon the negative...
Read MoreLent is here again! Most of us are a full week into our self-selected Lenten resolution(s) and are finding out just how easy or difficult they are for us to manage. And, like every year, people have chimed in with their...
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