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How (Not) to Have Arguments Among Catholics

A recent exchange between Robert Mickens and George Weigel provides an illustration of much that is wrong with our middle-brow conversation in the Catholic world. Mickens’ piece takes Weigel to task...

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Catholic Voices Unite Against the Death Penalty

On Thursday, four diverse Catholic publications – America, National Catholic Reporter, National Catholic Register, and Our Sunday Visitor - issued a joint editorial statement calling for abolition of...

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Unsentimental

We live in a public discourse awash in emotional manipulation. For whatever cause – commercial, charitable, political – we are subjected to words and imagery that seek to provoke a response of...

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Turkson’s Three Directions for Catholic Ecology

Cardinal Peter Turkson recently gave a lecture in Ireland that, as Michael Peppard expertly summarizes, offers a preview of the forthcoming ecology encyclical. Cardinal Turkson goes so far as make...

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Polarization and the Synod: Two Insights

One of the things I value about my institutional location is that I get to engage conversations from the full spectrum of American Catholicism. I think in many places there can be a temptation to a...

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Polarization: A Textbook Case

One way in which polarization is created and sustained in Catholic discourse is by the positing of false and misleading dichotomies. Much debate over the interpretation and reception of Vatican II has...

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Polarization: Three Hopes, Three Questions

Polarization can be understood on a number of levels. On three of these, it seems, the recent Polarization and the U.S. Catholic Church conference showed great hope. The first is the simple task of...

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Frs. Reese and Sirico on the Encyclical: What We Can Learn

It is getting borderline entertaining to watch the “prebuttals” on the upcoming encyclical. One could comment on how the wide access to immediate media has made it easier (as I am doing right now!) to...

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Of Carbon Credits and Air Conditioners

In the early responses to the encyclical Laudato Si’, a couple particular points have drawn attention. As soon as I read the leaked draft, I knew that Francis’s use of the example of air conditioning...

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Why Greece is Not a Morality Play

We have an awful tendency to turn every story into a good-versus-evil, heroes-and-villains tale. Some stories are like this; many are not. The Left and the Right both do this. If you read the...

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Everything is a Caress of God

The following is a guset post from Dr. Alessandro Rovati, Adjunct Professor at Belmont Abbey College. There have been so many comments on the encyclical Laudato Si, but not many have focused on an...

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Internal Forum: A Common Ground Solution for the Divorced and Remarried

The following is a guest post from Julie Hanlon Rubio, professor of theology at Saint Louis University. The German-speaking group of bishops at the Synod in Rome is proposing a solution to the...

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2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: God’s Glory, Our Task

  Isaiah 62:1-5, Psalm 96, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, John 2:1-11 Today’s readings kick off the “ordinary” liturgical cycle with a bang, continuing the theme of light to the nations, which dominated the...

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3rd Sunday of Lent: Who Is God?

Plenty of people ask, “Who is God?” In this season of preparation, we should not forget that Christians have a particular – and particularly weird – answer to that question. We are preparing to unveil...

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Our Collective Immorality Play: On The Big Short

For taking an ethics trip to the movies, you could hardly do better than The Big Short, Michael Lewis’s story of the of the few renegade financial fund managers who bet against the housing bubble. The...

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Being Pastoral: It’s Complicated

Austin Ivereigh has a fantastic, extremely helpful “preview” of what to expect in Pope Francis’s document on marriage and the family, due to arrive tomorrow. The piece is helpful because it already...

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On the Vatican Conference and Just Peace

The following is a guest post from Eli McCarthy, who is an adjunct professor of Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. What an amazing experience with so many amazing, courageous,...

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Controlling the Evolving Catholic Blogosphere?

Crux ran a commentary recently by a frequent Catholic priest blogger from Patheos, entitled “Radical Catholic blogs may be a cesspool, but saying so won’t help.” The blogger laments aspects of the...

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Is There a Moral Center To Hold?

I have been struggling to come up with something valuable to say in the midst of this extraordinarily challenging moment. Perhaps not knowing what to say is a good first step, since the temptation to...

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American Discontent and Catholic Economics

Americans have long been pretty discontented about the direction of the country. In my lifetime, only two periods – the mid to late 1980’s and the mid to late 1990’s – show a strong and rising...

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