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September 2016

September 14, 2016

the exaltation of the cross should mean reaching out to the suffering

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: how regal, how sonorous, the phrase; how solemn the...

September 02, 2016

meditation at a season’s end

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

vulgarity and double standards in political discourse

Vulgarity turned against the powerful can be profoundly moral, as every good comic artist knows;...

August 21, 2016

catholic and feminist: identity, action, and faith

Looking anew at Mary and other female saints – looking anew at the women of...

August 10, 2016

sex robots, inequality, and consequentialism

the products are clearly marketed on the basis of existing sexist stereotypes and predicated on...

August 06, 2016

the politics of not unfriending

If you post racist stuff online, I probably won't unfriend you. I've unfriended and blocked...

August 03, 2016

I wrote a piece about baby-hating, and this is what I learned

If one can not reject hatred of persons, if one can not embrace a willingness...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

subsidiarity is not isolationism

Subsidiarity is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

June 20, 2016

this attack on democrats for life indicates that, for some, party loyalty takes precedence over life ethics

One of the first uses of "pro-life" to denote opposition to abortion was in 1971,...

June 16, 2016

bloomsday: we all need this bawdy, geeky literary festival

Celebrating Bloomsday means we leave the preset cycles of an institutionalized society and behave surprisingly;...

June 13, 2016

the tragedy must be politicized

I like the feel of a gun in my hand. But here's the deal: what...

June 06, 2016

confessing the sin of racism

Looking back, I am ashamed. Now I wish to mend whatever flaw in my soul...

June 03, 2016

scapegoating, nature, and narcissism: some thoughts on the cincinnati zoo incident

It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

party loyalty is not important. it isn’t even a good idea

I've lived through sixeen years of two different Hitlers and, amazingly, lived to tell the...

May 27, 2016

no, a vote for a third party is not “a vote for candidate X” (unless the world is more absurd than I expected)

A vote for a third party is not a vote for Hillary. Nor is it...

May 26, 2016

love, death, time: the myth of the cicadas

Outraged at the divine, I decided I was tired of being good, and would begin...

May 25, 2016

is a bourgeois version of charity inhibiting social change?

In the July 2012 issue of Yes! magazine, Peter Dreier writes about "The Radical Dissent...

May 23, 2016

a window might not open, and you might be given more than you can handle: the clamor of insufficient explanations

In Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the atheist brother Ivan refuses to believe in a God...

May 18, 2016

archdiocese of chicago gets it right on parental leave, but will others follow?

Can an organization do an examination of conscience? No, but those who oversee it can....

May 18, 2016

another oil spill? we need to change our lives

Crews are working to clean up over 88,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the...

May 14, 2016

what’s so comforting about a tongue of fire or descending dove?

I can't imagine that God really wants us keeling over and babbling. Communication and unity...

May 10, 2016

an alternative to the fantasy of domination: eco gardening as religious devotion

Travel into space: a Cartesian trip, a technological escape of the mind (real or artificial)...

May 09, 2016

family values should not be a first-world privilege

What I found reading the story of the Mother's Day event, and perusing the comments,...

May 04, 2016

what will republican catholics do now?

If you are supporting Trump because of his stance on the economy, immigration, Muslims, or...

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

you actually might not want to be so quick to criticize those who are opposing that polish abortion bill

I don’t advocate abortion as the answer to this impossibility. I advocate making better choices...

April 21, 2016

the music we need to keep on dancing: in memoriam, prince

There are artists that accompany us from the dark places to the bright, who give...

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...

April 20, 2016

happy birthday to my dad…and to adolf hitler?

For this Jewish Catholic, this challenge to believe takes one down a very strange path,...

April 18, 2016

the unbearable boringness of promiscuity

Because eros is not the same as sex. Sex can be an aspect of the...