Category: Ecclesial Politics
What Conclave Gets Right
Conclave, directed by Edward Berger, is based on the book of the same name by Robert Harris. It...
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Madeline Jarrett Responds to Roundtable on the Role of the Catholic Church in Addressing Reproductive Injustices
This guest post is the ninth in our series on the CTEWC book Reproduction and the Common Good:...
Read MoreLiturgy/ Ethics: a Coronavirus contribution from Canada
Given a public health crisis that makes gathering in a closed space for an hour dangerous, particularly for anyone who is more at risk from COVID-19, how will the Church teach about and practice its call to gathered worship, to...
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Better That Millstones Be Tied around Our Necks
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to...
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To Uncle Ted’s Nephews
A year after Theodore McCarrick was named a cardinal, the Washington Post ran a story...
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The problem with The Benedict Option is that it’s “The Benedict Option”
I agree with pretty much everything Rod Dreher says in The Benedict Option, and strongly...
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Kaveny’s “Big Chill”: Thoughts on Sex, Tenure and How it All Relates to the CTSA Report
Cathleen Kaveny has written an important essay in Commonweal called “The Big Chill:...
Read More“The Intellectual Task of the New Evangelization”: Hopeful Signs of Dialogue Between Bishops and Theologians
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...
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Post-Partisan, No; Post-Politicized, Yes
Over at Daily Theology, Brad Rothrock offers a critique of what he calls the “post-partisan”...
Read MoreDiocese of San Diego Fires Catholic School Teacher Because of Her Ex-Husband’s Abusive Behavior
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 MoreSpeaking the Truth in Love: Catholics, Politics, and Compromise
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 MoreSexual Abuse, Humility and the Papacy
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...
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