Popular Culture | Catholic Moral Theology

Mercy And This Present Darkness

by Miguel J Romero | Jan 25, 2019 | American Politics, Current Events, Popular Culture, Role of Moral Theologian in Church and Society Series | 0 |

Is it important for Catholic moral theologians to comment on the most recent headlines? It seems...

The Keepers, Ecclesiology, and Ethics

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Jul 17, 2017 | Current Events, Popular Culture, Women and Gender | 0 |

The Netflix miniseries The Keepers, directed by Ryan White, should come with trigger warnings....

What to do about our ‘Best Kept Secret’?

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Sep 29, 2016 | American Politics, Current Events, Economics, Popular Culture, The Parish | 4 |

This is a guest post by Dr. Maureen Day, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at the...

Labor Day Confessions of a Working Mom

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Sep 5, 2016 | Current Events, Economics, Marriage and Family, Popular Culture, Women and Gender | 1 |

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my...

Encountering God at Summer Music Festivals

by Emily Reimer-Barry | May 25, 2016 | Current Events, Popular Culture | 0 |

In my first year of teaching at USD, one of my students came in 50 minutes late to a 55 minute...

Mad Max: Fury Road – More Than Just an Action Film

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Feb 2, 2016 | Current Events, Popular Culture | 1 |

This post is the first film review in the series “Virtue Ethics at the Movies.” You...

Virtue Ethics at the Movies: Introducing a New Series

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Feb 1, 2016 | Current Events, Popular Culture | 0 |

The Christian moral tradition is full of stories. Consider the creation myths of Genesis, the...

The NFL, Women, and the Idolization of Masculinity

by Nichole Flores | Feb 1, 2015 | Current Events, Popular Culture, Women and Gender | 0 |

It’s Super Bowl Sunday! For football fanatics, this is the highest of holy days for our beloved...

“My Friends and I We’ve Cracked the Code”: Lorde’s “Royals” and the Kingdom of God

by Matthew Shadle | Nov 7, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Popular Culture | 1 |

The song “Royals” by seventeen year-old artist Lorde, from New Zealand, was a surprise hit of this...

Darkness in the Mirror: The Challenge of Zero Dark Thirty

by Meghan Clark | Feb 26, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Popular Culture | 1 |

One of my first blog posts was about the death of Osama Bin Laden. In Relief or Rejoice? Reflections on the Death of Osama Bin Laden, in which I concluded As Christians, it is appropriate to feel a strong sense of relief but...

Does Your Smartphone Cause Sexual Violence?

by David Cloutier | Jan 12, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Popular Culture | 4 |

I attended two panels at this past weekend’s Society of Christian Ethics conference, and to cut to the chase, both made me wonder why products that are pervasive in our society always seem to be accompanied by horror stories...

Doing Moral Theology with Les Miserables

by Beth Haile | Jan 1, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Popular Culture | 10 |

You could teach a whole semester-long class on moral theology through the lens of Les Miserables, Victor Hugo’s epic examination of “the miserable”–the downtrodden and forgotten part of society. The novel...

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