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I was pleased to contribute to a panel on Laudato Si’ at the recent USCCB Convocation of Catholic...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Jul 7, 2017 | Current Events | 0 |
I was pleased to contribute to a panel on Laudato Si’ at the recent USCCB Convocation of Catholic...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Oct 7, 2016 | Current Events | 1 |
I had the distinct privilege of attending the CST and Pedagogy conference last week at Catholic...
Read Moreby Meghan Clark | Dec 20, 2013 | Current Events | 2 |
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 Moreby David Cloutier | May 31, 2013 | Current Events | 0 |
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 Moreby Dana Dillon | Apr 30, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Ecclesial Politics | 2 |
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 Moreby Tobias Winright | Jan 23, 2013 | Current Events | 14 |
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 Moreby Julie Rubio | Nov 25, 2012 | Current Events | 5 |
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 Moreby Meghan Clark | Jun 15, 2012 | Current Events | 11 |
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 Moreby Dana Dillon | Apr 27, 2012 | Current Events | 1 |
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 Moreby Meghan Clark | Apr 20, 2012 | Current Events | 18 |
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...
Read Moreby Meghan Clark | Mar 8, 2012 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Economics, From the Field | 4 |
As a Catholic moral theologian, I must confess that the principle of subsidiarity is perhaps one of the most crucial and most misunderstood in Catholic social teaching. According to the principle of subsidiarity, decisions...
Read Moreby Meghan Clark | Feb 9, 2012 | Current Events | 0 |
1 in 6 Americans are living at or below the poverty line, 1 in 5 children. What does that mean? Here’s the new video from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the anti-poverty campaign of the United States...
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