To Uncle Ted’s Nephews
A year after Theodore McCarrick was named a cardinal, the Washington Post ran a story...
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Category: Ecclesial Politics
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...
Read MoreBenedict XVI: Pope of the Great “Et…Et”
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 MoreHow Not to Discuss Catholic Social Teaching with the Bishops
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 MoreL’Affaire Farley and the Ongoing Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology
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 MorePenn State, Sandusky, and the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis
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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