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July 2014

July 31, 2014

Understanding Pope Francis, From A Jesuit Perspective

With all that's been written about understanding Pope Francis, fellow Patheos blogger and newly ordained...

July 29, 2014

Is Francis a Liberal or a Conservative?

Ideologues of all kinds have been trying to figure out Pope Francis for over a...

July 24, 2014

War on Women? Try 2 Million Contacts. 100,000 Hours. Countless Lives Transformed.

Heartbeat International, a global network of pregnancy centers, has been able to confirm that it...

July 23, 2014

The Real Problem(s) With NFP

Yesterday, fellow blogger Greg Popcak posted a provocative piece, "There's No Such Thing As NFP."...

July 18, 2014

Catechism 101 on Married Priests for Sean Hannity

Earlier this week, on Monday, I was flipping through the channels and caught the end...

July 16, 2014

Marriage. What Does Peace Have To Do With It & Are We Ready To Do The Work Of Peace?

We talk about peace, but it's generally an abstract concept describing relations between nations. Nevertheless,...

July 12, 2014

Married Priests

One of the standard hurdles thrown at Catholics is the question of why doesn't the...

July 07, 2014

Why the Hobby Lobby Decision Brings Out the Feminist in Me

The more I think about it, the more the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby...

July 02, 2014

And So It Starts – Spinning The Hobby Lobby Case

This is a picture of yesterday's San Jose Mercury News, front page, above the fold....

July 01, 2014

Of Gods And Men

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the situation of Christians in Iraq. It...

July 01, 2014

Action! – Two Quick Thoughts on the Hobby Lobby Decision.

Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on the Hobby Lobby case was a welcoming gesture not only towards...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

When You Want Something Done, Ask A Woman – Archbishop Sample Consecrates Portland Archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart

I'm making my way south to Los Angeles where I'll be teaching an adjunct theology...

June 27, 2014

Meditation, Psychotherapy, & Buddhism

The Atlantic Monthly has a provocative article by Tomas Rocha on the dangers of meditation....

June 26, 2014

Day 3 In Rome – I Now Know Where to Sit in the Dining Room to Have a View of the Pope

So, I'm catching up with my postings. The rest of my Rome trip was a...

June 19, 2014

Day 2 In Rome

Day 2 in Rome started with 7 a.m. Mass at St. Peter's. Hands down this...

June 17, 2014

Day 1 (and a half) in Rome

I arrived Rome yesterday afternoon. This trip has been totally last minute even though I...

June 11, 2014

How the Pope’s Invocation for Peace Relates to “Evangelii Gaudium” and to Crises Everywhere.

Pope Francis' recent Invocation for Peace with Presidents Peres and Abbas, respectively of Israel and...

June 10, 2014

Tuam Horror Story Unraveling As Mosul Burns

Over the past week or so, I've written three pieces on the Tuam Home where...

June 07, 2014

Still Trying to Get at the Truth of the Tuam Home Story

The Irish Times has an extensive article today raising doubts about the accounts of 800...

June 06, 2014

When the Truth Gets in The Way of News

A few days ago, several of us responded to a WAPost article about a home...

June 05, 2014

How Much Money Do You Have In Your Bank Account?

A recent HuffPo article by Sylvia Bass, "To the Lady Ashamed of Being Pregnant With...

June 04, 2014

It Takes A Village – UPDATED.

My fellow bloggers here at Patheos have done a fantastic job highlighting the various problems...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Violence Against Women: The Underbelly.

Extreme violence has always bothered me. Forget trying to get me to watch a really...

May 22, 2014

If only rabbis, scout leaders, nurses, and cops weren’t celibate…

Oh wait, they aren't. Then how to explain this recent child porn bust in the...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

JP2 on the New Feminism: Be Not Afraid.

The picture below was taken early in the morning on November 9, 2001, the day...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

2 Essential Resolutions For Lent

Ok, at this point in Lent, our resolutions are not unlike our New Year's resolutions....

March 13, 2014

White Smoke!, Women & the Church, Shoe Leather Evangelization, and Pope Francis’ Pontificate

This post is going to be a bit rambling as I want to mention several...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Fifty Shades of Gender

It's old news that Facebook now offers 54 new gender options for users to describe...

February 13, 2014

No Discussion, Please. We Want Diversity.

Oh that ignorant Catholic Church. Once again, it has a different view from those who...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Ready to Rumble: Discussing a Theology of Woman.

I'll be on the Drew Mariani Show, hosted by Wendy Wiese at 4.30 ET today to...