Category: Current Events
Election is Not Enough – 21st Sun of OT
The doctrine of election – that is, the idea that God has chosen (elected) a particular people to...
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What is the “culture of death”? Demanding everyone stand on their own two feet.
Concerned to focus on the “culture of death” as we head into another tortured election season? Call out the cultural disorder, not the individual red flags that pit Catholics against one another. Society exists so that we can love one another as an aspect of our loving God– not so that we can avoid being a burden to each other.
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Vigilance – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
WIS 18:6-9 PS 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 HEB 11:1-2, 8-12 LK 12:32-48 The passages that come to us...
Read MoreA Brief History of New Wine, New Wineskins
The 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...
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Can Catholics Have Worthwhile Disagreements Well? Two Case Studies
Both my undergraduate and graduate institutions prepared me, in different ways, to see that the...
Read More17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Our Common Prayer as Moral Theology
Genesis 18:20-32Colossians 2:12-14Luke 11:1-13 One of the occasional debates in moral theology is the connection between prayer and ethics. In a classic essay, L. Edward Phillips identified three ways Christians typically see...
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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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Issues of Identity and Belonging: Catholic Insights for an American Problem
In recent days, much has been made of the president’s horrific suggestion (via Twitter, of course)...
Read MoreForky and Woody: Toy Story 4 and the Disposable Peoples
In Disney’s Toy Story 4, Bonnie creates a new toy named Forky at her kindergarten orientation day. Woody and the rest of the gang realize how important Forky is to Bonnie, and team up to teach Forky what it means to be loved....
Read MoreAre You My Mother? On Resisting the Disappearance of Prenatal Children in Law and Culture
This is a guest post from Justin Menno, PhD in theology from the University of Dayton, and instructor at Catholic Central High School in Grand Rapids, MI. Three weeks ago, on May 28, 2019, the Supreme Court issued an important...
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Urgent Still: On this 4th Anniversary of Laudato si’
Four years ago today, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ was published. Its message is as urgent...
Read MoreIdentity, Life, Love: Reflecting on Foundations of the Moral Life in Light of Rocketman & Educated
SPOILER ALERT. I will refer to plot points within the book and film in this post, so if you want to read/watch without spoilers first, be warned. Also, I do not intend in this post to claim that my interlocutors are Catholic...
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