Conscience at the Polls: Voting, Immigration, and the Common Good
This is the twelfth post in our Conscience at the Polls series and is a guest post by Dr. Victor...
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Conscience at the Polls: Abortion and the Election
This is the eleventh post in our Conscience at the Polls series. So many have made this election...
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Conscience at the Polls: Considering Candidates Leadership Qualities and Virtues when Voting
This is a guest post by Kathy Lilla Cox, Research Associate at the University of San Diego in the...
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Conscience at the Polls: Guest Post by Dr. Michael Jaycox on Primacy of Conscience
This is a guest post by Dr. Michael Jaycox for our Conscience at the Polls series. The first post...
Read MoreConscience at the Polls: Introducing a Series
In Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, the US Bishops argue that “responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation” (13). They go on to say that political participation is...
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On “Tender Age” Shelters, Internment, and Concentration Camps
I want to tell you a story. It is a story about a current national shame, uncertain theological...
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The Primacy of Forgiveness (Or, What the Pope’s Confessional has to do with the Synod Discussion of Conscience)
Following is a jointly-authored post from Jana Bennett and David Cloutier: Watching the Synod from...
Read More“I’m Using Birth Control. Am I a Bad Catholic?”
I spoke to a woman recently who I respect very much and who takes her faith very seriously. She mentioned that she is on artificial birth control. Her husband is not a Catholic and for him, Natural Family Planning (NFP) was...
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Hypocrisy at Hobby Lobby?
I wanted to write a few words about the recent revelations published in Mother Jones that “the...
Read MoreFaithful Citizenship Fridays: Voting for that Candidate Will Land You in Hell
I hope that title got your attention. I also hope that we can laugh about it a little, and also talk about how serious it is. I found myself today fondly recalling the hilarious description in Growing Up Catholic of the moral...
Read MoreJFK’s Speech: Should It Make Catholics Sick?
Last week, presidential candidate Rick Santorum defended his previous statement that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy’s famous speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960. Santorum referenced the...
Read MoreThoughts on the “Revised” HHS Mandate
Yesterday, President Obama announced changes to the HHS mandate requiring every employer to cover contraceptives (including early abortifacients) and sterilization. The White House is doing its best to spin this as a victory...
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