In the tempest of this final week of the 2024 election, the words of St. Paul that the U.S. Catholic bishops cite in their statement Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship are sweet music to my ears…
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I want to tell you a story. It is a story about a current national shame, uncertain theological...
Read MoreThis post hopefully builds on or piggybacks Beth Haile’s “Where Do We Go From Here?” posted on November 8th here at Catholic Moral Theology. By “we” I am referring to my fellow Roman Catholics and...
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A few of our readers have asked us to weigh in on voting and abortion – Do Catholics have...
Read MoreOver the Thanksgiving holiday, my family went to see Spielberg’s Lincoln. It is a wonderful movie that reminds us of how good and important politics can be, but it also raises some hard questions for Catholics. According...
Read MoreThe recently released, “On All of Our Shoulders,” which criticizes VP candidate Paul Ryan’s use of Catholic Social Teaching, was signed by over 150 Catholic theologians. While I disagree with critics who...
Read More“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks only what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without...
Read MoreGenerating facebook buzz is a video played at the Democratic National Convention, headlined by the memorable tag “government is the only thing we all belong to.” A simple message of civic inclusiveness and unity, desperately...
Read MoreSee below for Charlie’s entry into the endless debates between American Catholic neo-conservatives and the actual teachings and actions of the American bishops. Perhaps it would be helpful to put into perspective what a...
Read MoreThe political problem for Catholics in America is sometimes characterized in terms of a “checklist” of positions, which do not properly align with the positions of either major party. I don’t think this is the real problem. The...
Read More(A guest post from Kelly Johnson, associate professor in the theology department at University of Dayton. Kelly would like to thank Todd Whitmore, Jana Bennett, and David Cloutier for helpful conversations on the topic.) In...
Read MoreI 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...
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