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July 2018

July 20, 2018

Review of The Wineskins: Shut Me Up Sundance. Songs for Now and Then

And so in the quiet melody and the hint of bittersweet, in the questioning of...

July 17, 2018

In Our Outrage Over Trump and Putin, Don’t Forget Immigrant Families

Let’s not forget that the reason we decided to resist Trump in the first place...

July 12, 2018

Catholic Men Explain Me to Me

One serious problem is that religious men feel divinely entitled to have a privileged position...

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

July 09, 2018

SCOTUS Pick Kavanaugh Argued a Sitting President Shouldn’t Be Indicted, Will Respect Abortion Precedent

Two years ago, as the November presidential elections loomed large, conservatives and pro-lifers were breathlessly...

July 04, 2018

An Independence Day Reminder: We Are Not Free

It feels like surrealism to be celebrating freedom in America, particularly. If I have any...

July 04, 2018

I Won’t Be Trying To Say God Next Year: #MeToo and Catholic Writers – UPDATED

it’s clear that women writers have an uphill battle still, when it comes to being...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

So You Didn’t Like Political Correctness (Or: What Would Nietzsche Say?)

You thought you didn't like political correctness, but you hate it when you have to...

June 24, 2018

Whatever Happened to Parental Rights? Alfie Evans and Immigrant Children

For those who find it a challenge to see "us" in "them," I would suggest...

June 22, 2018

What Does the Gospel Teach Us About Property and Illegal Immigration?

There's very little sacrifice asked of us to welcome the stranger. We live in a...

June 22, 2018

Some Dead White Males on the Topic of “Not Taking Sides”

Whatever you are, this is one of those times in history in which refusing to...

June 15, 2018

Legality is Not Morality: We Need To Protect Families

It doesn’t matter if they are coming here illegally or not. Legality is not morality....

June 12, 2018

White Folks Need to Watch Black Panther

We love racial justice stories when we get to swoop in and save everyone, but...

June 11, 2018

The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to...

June 07, 2018

Flowers For Virginia: A Visit to Monk’s House

We’d spent the day in places haunted by ghosts, ghosts who comfort us, with their...

June 06, 2018

No, #MeToo is Not the Fault of the Sexual Revolution

It’s a poor argument that contraception is bad because it will lead to the objectification...

June 04, 2018

Intelligent Catholics Need to Stop Taking Far-Right Reactionaries Seriously

We should regard them as theological equivalents of flat-earthers.

May 2018

May 30, 2018

The Stories Our Bodies Tell: Beyond the Theology of the Singular Body

Defining women via receptivity means bracketing out whole categories of deeply personal, bodily, spiritual, and...

May 22, 2018

“Don’t Talk Politics!” – A Privilege That Perpetuates Injustice

The price of justice for the oppressed is set so low, it is valued less...

May 17, 2018

“I’ll Eat You Up, I Love You So”: Religion Where The Wild Things Are

There’s a long tradition of Catholics being accused of cannibalism, eating our own God, and...

May 14, 2018

Where Are the Poor in the Spectacle of the Church?

If there was any scandal in the Met Gala, it is that when the world...

May 08, 2018

If Alfie Evans Had Been An American Baby

44 million Americans are uninsured right now. My children and I are among these. Being...

May 04, 2018

Catholics Have No Excuses for Justifying Cover-Ups

We have seen clearly what happens when communities and religious organizations cover-up sexual assault.

May 01, 2018

Merton’s Mona Lisa Smile

My friend Cassidy Hall is one of those wonderful humans who still write letters,...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Why Supporting Local Agriculture is Pro-Life

We can’t ignore the injustice that’s built into our mass produced food system.

April 22, 2018

About That Church Militant Article Going Around, and That Alumni Letter…

If objecting to racism, sexism, and theological dissent is seen as an “attack” on conservative...

April 20, 2018

The Toxic Spirituality of Fetishizing Suffering

The failure to understand the nature of suffering means that one fails in spiritual discernment...

April 18, 2018

Victimhood is an Objective Reality

There is a world of difference between BEING a victim and PLAYING a victim.

April 17, 2018

Hey, Fellow White Folks: Listen to Black Folks!

Listen to what Black people have to say about their experiences of racism

April 13, 2018

NFP and the Cookie-Cutter Woman

It’s only in the area of sexuality – this private, intimate, vulnerable region – that...

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