Tag: Pope Francis
The Option for the Poor Is Not Optional for Catholics: Here’s Why
by Emily Reimer-Barry | Mar 12, 2025 | Current Events | 0 |
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
by Maria Morrow | Nov 26, 2024 | Current Events | 0 |
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
by Maria Morrow | Nov 18, 2024 | Current Events | 0 |
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...
Read MoreResponse to Introduction (Series: Reproduction and the Common Good)
by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 15, 2024 | From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |
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.
Read MoreConscience at the Polls: The U.S. Bishops, Pope Francis, and a Holistic Ethic of Life
by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 25, 2020 | American Politics, Current Events | 1 |
Young people demonstrate in front of the White House for holistic approach to life issues...
Read MoreThree Quick Takeaways from Fratelli Tutti
by David Cloutier | Oct 5, 2020 | Current Events | 0 |
Like his other writings, Pope Francis’s Fratelli Tutti is a rich – and long! – document that...
Read MoreA Catholic Response to Sex Worker Relief
by Jason King | May 11, 2020 | Current Events | 0 |
This is a guest post by Mark Levand, PhD, an adjunct professor in the department of theology and...
Read MoreDeath Penalty Development: A Conditional Advance of Justice
by Book Reviews | Aug 3, 2018 | Current Events | 7 |
In a doctrinal clarification apropos for the feast day of Alphonsus Liguori, patron of moral...
Read MoreFacebook, Privacy, and the Church
by Jana Bennett | Apr 14, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |
“What does the Church have to say about privacy?” I was asked this week, in the...
Read MoreThe Existential Journey of Holiness: Pope Francis’s Gaudete et Exsultate
by Matthew Shadle | Apr 12, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |
While reading Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, on the call to...
Read MoreGaudete et exultate: A first (pre-emptive) take
by David Cloutier | Apr 9, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |
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
by Tobias Winright | Mar 20, 2018 | Pope Francis | 0 |
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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