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March 2021

March 03, 2021

Catholics Are De-Toxing From their Experiences With Traumatic Religion. How You Respond to them Matters

Do you feel that the work people are doing to recover from religious trauma is...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society

Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and...

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

January 2021

January 12, 2021

Conspiracy Theories, Alternate Reality, and the Perils of Totalitarian Religion

A sacramental imagination should engage us with what is real and present. It should not...

January 08, 2021

Making a Difference: Reflections on Pope Francis’ 2021 World Day of Peace Message

Francis reminds us that the Catholic social teaching principle of respect for the dignity of...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

May 2020

May 25, 2020

The Demand to Open Churches Is the Opposite of Christ-Like

Jesus taught that we ought to be willing to die for him. Yet here we...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

In The Midst of Pandemic, The Personal Is Political, More than Ever

What they are actually demanding, even if they do not realize it, is not freedom...

April 10, 2020

The Danger of Faith Without Evidence, Religion Without Immanence

The danger of rejecting the moral significance of earthly life, the here and now, in...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Do Catholic Feminists Wish to Smash the Church’s Patriarchy?

The idea of patriarchy is connected with the idea of dominion, and of orders of...

February 16, 2020

The Flawed Nuptial Imagery in Querida Amazonia – What Can Women Do?

Basically, you're wedded to a groom who is not actually Jesus, but a Jesus-impersonator. He’s...

February 08, 2020

Reclaiming Our Bodies As Subjects: Women and the Objectifying Gaze

What if, instead of judging what a woman in the world represents to a particular...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

Which Families Matter? Rethinking the Idea of “Parental Rights”

For Christians, especially, who invented the term “family values”: if we genuinely believe in protecting...

November 04, 2019

Is There A Fundamental Flaw In the Institutional Church’s Approach To Sex Ethics?

It is notable that while the Church has often been on the forefront in issues...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Yes, Catholic Women Should Preach. But Why Is This So Frightening?

Why is it so important for them to keep us silent? What do they have...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

“Traditional Catholicism” and Fetishization of Women

They are not presented as subjects, as women with interiority and a story. They are...

November 14, 2018

Does the Catholic Church Have a Racism Problem?

Recently Catholic News Agency published an article about the potential cause for canonization of Sr....

November 01, 2018

“Nazi Gun Control Theory” is Antisemitic Victim-Blaming

No matter what the political agenda, we should be wary about making easy comparisons to...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

What Is The Dispute Over Kavanaugh And His Accusers Really About?

The idea that the dispute is about abortion is undercut both by the fact that...

September 22, 2018

Bad Ethics, Bad Logic, and Sexual Assault Apologetics

Approaching sexual ethics this way is profoundly de-personalizing. It takes away agency and responsibility from...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Am I My Church’s Keeper? A Laywoman Ponders Her Responsibility

Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with...

August 19, 2018

Is It Really The Church That I Care About?

To give up because “it’s all in God’s hands” is a kind of nihilistic rejection...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...

July 12, 2018

Catholic Men Explain Me to Me

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

June 2018

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...

April 2018

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 18, 2018

Victimhood is an Objective Reality

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

March 2018

March 16, 2018

Consent is Necessary. It’s Also Ambiguous

Did Perry wave about a signed affidavit with “permission from feminists granted” on it? Did...

March 09, 2018

Making Ourselves Less of Ourselves

we’re still being constrained by the voices in our head to make ourselves smaller, take...