To Uncle Ted’s Nephews
A year after Theodore McCarrick was named a cardinal, the Washington Post ran a story...
Read Moreby Emily Reimer-Barry | Aug 18, 2018 | Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 0 |
A year after Theodore McCarrick was named a cardinal, the Washington Post ran a story...
Read Moreby Patrick Clark | Apr 20, 2017 | Classic Posts, Ecclesial Politics | 1 |
I agree with pretty much everything Rod Dreher says in The Benedict Option, and strongly...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Oct 16, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 10 |
Cathleen Kaveny has written an important essay in Commonweal called “The Big Chill:...
Read Moreby Thomas Bushlack | Sep 17, 2013 | Classic Posts, Ecclesial Politics, From the Field | 2 |
If there is one consistent message regarding the meaning of Vatican II that I learned from my teachers in theology it is that the mark of the post-Vatican II Church is dialogue. In that spirit, I was privileged to attend a...
Read Moreby Matthew Shadle | Jul 1, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 5 |
Over at Daily Theology, Brad Rothrock offers a critique of what he calls the “post-partisan”...
Read Moreby Emily Reimer-Barry | Jun 13, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 3 |
Been working for the church While your life falls apart, Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart, Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a home. -from “Intervention” by Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) I...
Read Moreby Dana Dillon | Apr 30, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 2 |
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. ...
Read Moreby Charles Camosy | Feb 27, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 1 |
As the Papal Conclave grows closer, the media coverage of clergy sexual abuse (in part spurred by recent events) has grown louder. This is as it should be. The anger and pain caused by the actions (and omissions) of those in...
Read Moreby Charles Camosy | Feb 12, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 1 |
Like the head of the Anglican communion before him, Pope Benedict XVI has stepped down from his post as chief shepherd of his flock. The stories, both yesterday and today, have focused much of their time on his...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Aug 20, 2012 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 9 |
I know that a current popular notion is that the bishops have no special or particular authority to say anything about economic policy or justice because they’re not economists. Only economists apparently have the right...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Jun 4, 2012 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 8 |
This morning the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published a notification stating that Margaret A. Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (Continuum 2006),...
Read Moreby John Berkman | Nov 11, 2011 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 4 |
This past week every Catholic moral theologian has been reminded of a recent crisis in our Church that some of us may well want to put behind us. I hope that if any good can possibly come out of the Sandusky criminal...
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