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...
View ArticleTeresa 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...
View ArticleExamining 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”...
View ArticleWhen 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,...
View ArticleKarl 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...
View ArticleAbortion, 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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