Tag: USCCB
Taylor Ott Responds to Mary M. Doyle Roche’s “Rachel Is Weeping for Her Children”
This is the tenth post in our series on Reproduction and the Common Good: Global Perspectives from...
Read MoreConscience, Prudence, Unity: Voting with the USCCB Guidance
The Independent Voter, oil on canvas from the National Gallery of Art; image is in the public domain. This is the second post in a brief series of reflections in the weeks leading up to the U.S. election on Forming Consciences...
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Three Takeaways from #CatholicConvo
I was pleased to contribute to a panel on Laudato Si’ at the recent USCCB Convocation of Catholic...
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Teaching Catholic Social Teaching: Some Resources
I had the distinct privilege of attending the CST and Pedagogy conference last week at Catholic...
Read MoreIn Defense of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare
Controversies concerning Catholicism and healthcare have been front page staples over the last few years. Currently, it is the ACLU is suing the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of Tamesha Means, who...
Read MoreFr. Peter Ryan, Moral Theology, and Human Fulfillment
Jesuit Fr. Peter Ryan, a moral theologian, has been appointed as the new head of the doctrinal committee of the USCCB. (For full disclosure, I served on committees with Fr. Ryan during his time at Mount St. Mary’s, and found him...
Read MoreSpeaking the Truth in Love: Catholics, Politics, and Compromise
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. ...
Read MoreCatholic Theologians, Clergy, & Activists Statement on “Reasonable Measures to Regulate the Sale and Use of Lethal Weapons”
Earlier today, a statement was issued by more than 60 Catholic theologians, priests, Catholic sisters, justice advocates and retired officials from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Catholic lawmakers concerning public...
Read MoreLincoln and the Virtues of Politics
Over 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 MoreBishops Vote for Pastoral Reflection on ‘Work, Poverty And A Broken Economy’
At this week’s meeting of the USCCB, the Conference voted 171 to 26 in favor of drafting a Catholic Pastoral Reflection tentatively titled: “Catholic Reflections on Work, Poverty, and a Broken Economy.” 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 MoreMissing the Point on Poverty
There has been a lot of discussion this week about the morality of the Ryan Budget. Since Paul Ryan’s statement on subsidiarity, the media and blogs have been full of posts either supporting or correcting Paul...
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