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April 2016

April 09, 2016

How Feminism Strengthened My Christianity

I dared to think, and to see Mary as a woman who thought, who contemplated,...

April 06, 2016

cultural appropriation is real, and it is a religious issue

Perhaps God does indeed work mysteriously through the turmoil of history, but the divinely comedic...

April 01, 2016

when God walks among us, and women need not be afraid

we see the resurrected Christ make his appearance first to a woman, Mary Magdalene, and...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Yes, We Can Dare Hope That All Will Be Saved

In the "Dear Padre" piece on the back of our church bulletin this past Easter...

March 25, 2016

the descent to the underworld

This nothingness, this emptiness, is sometimes worse than the passion of grief or the melancholy...

March 25, 2016

How Can We Call this Friday Good?

Good Friday suffering happens in the moment of profound darkness when it is impossible to...

March 24, 2016

Holy Thursday and the Carnivalesque

Depictions of the life of Jesus, in film, vacillate between the sentimental and the gory....

March 21, 2016

pregnant, catholic, and unmarried: unconventional families and the catholic church

It's a shame that the veneration of Mary often is embroidered with a subtle rhetoric...

March 11, 2016

in praise of the disgusting

There are forms of piety that turn away from all things dirty or disgusting, emphasizing...

March 10, 2016

suspect teleologies and the depersonalization of men

And why are we so accepting of the idea that men are reducible to tools...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

another look at what the pope really said – and a reminder on where to keep our focus

If you have been attending to the discussion over whether or not Pope Francis,...