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December 2018

December 31, 2018

Catholics Ought To Have a Zero Tolerance Policy for Anti-Semitism

To be a Catholic of Jewish ethnicity, right now, is to feel rather like Treebeard:...

December 29, 2018

This Christmas, Catholics Got Outraged at all the Wrong Things

In one of history’s many bitter ironies, advent season - a time when we prepare...

December 16, 2018

Are We Trying To be So Awful That No One Will Want To Come Here?

Do these people realize what they’re saying? That the US is the kind of nation...

December 15, 2018

The Nihilistic Idolatry of Cruelty

Because this is what I am seeing in so much of American culture today. Not...

December 09, 2018

Baby Jesus In a Cage? Yes, It’s Political

So, really, there's nothing especially new and out of the ordinary about depicting the Holy...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Advent Approaches, and Jesus is Coming

When will Jesus come again? The Advent season approaches, and Jesus is coming now. Still...

November 17, 2018

“Tradition” – You Keep Using That Word…

While the conservative imagination claims to love and uphold the past, typically it twists history...

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 14, 2018

Eternally Shielded in Rome: How They Protect Their Own

by guest writer MJ Lisbeth When you go to France, people expect you to...

November 09, 2018

Incivility Is Not the Problem

One of the strangest comments I saw, after the tragic mass shooting at Tree of...

November 07, 2018

What Does “Believe Women” Mean?

We’re not privileging women’s voices. We’re simply asking for equal consideration with those who already...

November 04, 2018

Cruelty, Sentimentality, and Authoritarian Regimes

It makes me aware of how totalitarian regimes succeed. Not because people are evil, but...

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...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

It Seems Like Everybody Gets It – Except the Leaders of the Church

When it comes to the power dynamics behind sexual assault, it seems everyone is finally...

October 27, 2018

Everlasting is their Heritage: A Jewish Prayer for the Dead

Every one of us who ever repeated the words “never again” after reading about the...

October 20, 2018

Congratulations, Republicans: You’ve Succeeded In Making the Old Abortion Debates Irrelevant

When I first started writing here, I began teasing out the idea that we need...

October 16, 2018

Conservatives Comment on Sexual Assault: A Curious Inconsistency

I think I needed a little breathing time before writing about this issue without succumbing...

October 13, 2018

Knock, Knock – Who’s There? More Than Half the Church!

When I was teaching Women Writers, my signature course for many years, I used to...

October 11, 2018

Two Catholic Churches – I’m Staying With One

by guest contributor H. Lillian Vogl I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply...

October 10, 2018

What Does Wonder Know? The 2018 Festival of Friendship

This was my third year of being involved in Revolution of Tenderness’s cultural event, the...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Forgiveness Is Not Enough, When It Comes To Healing For Victims

While “forgiveness” of “sins” might give the perpetrator a clean slate, it does nothing to...

August 28, 2018

A Good Reason for Suspending Judgment on The Accusation Against Francis

On the basis of the evidence of past action, it does not seem to me...

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...

August 14, 2018

On The Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, Scapegoating, and Justice

It’s important to distinguish between scapegoating and the pursuit of justice, and not to try...

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 23, 2018

Of Blackberries, Summer, and the Frailty of Time

Time is, we know from philosophy, theology, and physics, something of an illusion. This is...

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

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

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

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...