Tag: Pope Francis
The Option for the Poor Is Not Optional for Catholics: Here’s Why
The economy is on the mind of many Americans today. The House passed a spending bill to avert...
Read More1st Sunday of Advent: Preventing Drowsy Hearts
Christ in Limbo, Benvenuto di Giovanni, likely 1491. National Art Gallery image in the public domain. The readings for the First Sunday of Advent, Year C can be found here. December 1st, this first day of the month, is also the...
Read MoreWe Love with (Christ’s) Wounded Heart: How Dilexit Nos Challenges Us to Love
Suffering, compunction, consolation, forgiveness, reparation. These aspects are often forgotten in contemporary discussions of love and in popular slogans such as “Love is love.” While we may not expect secular ideas of love to...
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Response to Introduction (Series: Reproduction and the Common Good)
As the editors point out, the reproductive justice movement’s attentiveness to the social, emotional, and physical health and well-being of women has plenty of overlap with Catholic social teaching – in particular, its commitments to the common good, solidarity, the preferential option, and an assertion that protecting human rights necessitates positive social supports.
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Conscience at the Polls: The U.S. Bishops, Pope Francis, and a Holistic Ethic of Life
Young people demonstrate in front of the White House for holistic approach to life issues...
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Three Quick Takeaways from Fratelli Tutti
Like his other writings, Pope Francis’s Fratelli Tutti is a rich – and long! – document that...
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A Catholic Response to Sex Worker Relief
This is a guest post by Mark Levand, PhD, an adjunct professor in the department of theology and...
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Death Penalty Development: A Conditional Advance of Justice
In a doctrinal clarification apropos for the feast day of Alphonsus Liguori, patron of moral...
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Facebook, Privacy, and the Church
“What does the Church have to say about privacy?” I was asked this week, in the...
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The Existential Journey of Holiness: Pope Francis’s Gaudete et Exsultate
While reading Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, on the call to...
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Gaudete et exultate: A first (pre-emptive) take
Pope Francis today issued an apostolic exhortation on the universal call to holiness. While it...
Read MoreIn Response to “The Good Pope and His Critics” by Ross Douthat
I submitted the following response letter to the New York Times regarding “The Good Pope and His Critics” by Ross Douthat (Mar 18, 2018, p. SR1). Although I have had good success in getting letters published there...
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