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Dia de los Muertos: A Day for Dangerous Memories

Today is Dia de los Muertos.  While my family does not celebrate Dia de los Muertos, the importance of this holiday to so many Catholics—especially so many Catholics living in the United States—makes...

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Teresa Berger on the Optional Omission of Women

Or, rather, one woman: Anna, the prophet. Teresa Berger (Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity) draws attention to the option created in the Roman Catholic lectionary to omit mention of Anna...

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Examining Our Consciences In Light of Structural Sin

This is my attempt to envision an examination of conscience that more explicitly deals with the intersection between interpersonal and structural-social sin.  NOTE: The absence of certain “traditional”...

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When Saints Do Evil

The other day, Megan and I were discussing the fact that so many of the Roman Catholic Church’s saints had people killed during their lifetimes.  Saints Robert Bellarmine and Thomas More, for instance,...

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Karl Rahner on the Assumption of Mary

Happy Feast of the Assumption!  By way of celebration, here’s an ode to one theologian’s understanding of what can be a really confusing dogma, especially for feminists.  I chose to highlight Karl...

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Abortion, Newtown, and the Feast of the Holy Innocents

Today, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the church remembers the thousands of Jewish male infants killed by kingly decree “in the days of Herod.”   In the weeks after the massacre at Newtown, those...

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