Lectionary: Corpus Christi Sunday
All the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ may be found here on...
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Tag: Thomas Aquinas
Book Review: Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy. By Mary L. Hirschfeld. Cambridge, MA: Harvard...
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Book Review: The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology
The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective. By William C. Mattison III....
Read MoreThe “Real and Present Threat” of Non-Human Personhood?
Wesley Smith, whose ‘Secondhand Smoke’ blog is important reading (especially for those interested in bioethics), gets a lot right–especially when it comes to his concern about euthanasia. His books on that...
Read MoreJanuary 28: Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
Tomorrow is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and patron saint of students and Catholic universities. Born in Roccasecca (1225), Thomas entered the famous Benedictine abbey of Montecassino at the age of five,...
Read MorePeople of No Morals
Two-thirds of young adults couldn’t name a moral dilemma, says David Brooks, citing a study done on that age group by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith. ‘I don’t really deal with right and...
Read MoreA Prayer for Students and Teachers
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 121 Is 22:19-23 Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8 Rom 11:33-36 Mt 16:13-20 August is a special time of year for those involved in university life. Summer is coming to an end. Students are...
Read MoreSacrament of Charity
Reflections for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Solemnity of Corpus Christi It sometimes seems odd to me that we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) two weeks after Pentecost, after we have just celebrated the...
Read MorePeter Singer in a State of Flux?
There has been some time to digest the conference ‘Christian Ethics Engages Peter Singer’ at Oxford a couple of weeks ago. For anyone that wishes to watch some of the sessions, all of them are available on the...
Read MoreA Church Big Enough For All Types
Reflections for May 22, 2011 We are good at labels: conservative versus liberal, red state versus blue state, pro-life versus pro-choice. These labels are often reductive and lacking nuance, and even more often, such labels...
Read MoreStepping Down from the Ivory Tower: Pange Lingua and the Triduum
As I was participating in tonight’s Holy Thursday mass, I remembered that Thomas Aquinas wrote one of the great hymns that we sing today – Pange Lingua. This patron saint of ours was a very intimidating person, in...
Read MoreHelping Kobe Bryant Become More Virtuous
Virtue ethics is sometimes viewed as the antithesis of a more rule-based, deontological ethics. The latter tends to emphasize principles, rules, and punishment, while the former talks more about character development and good...
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