2014-09-04 14:00
Lisa Fullam, Th.D. (Harvard Divinity School), has been Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley since August 2003.Last April she wrote an academic t… Read More
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"The many become one, and are increased by one." Inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, who saw creativity as the ultimate metaphysical principle luring the universe into novelty. The primary interest is identifying, analyzing and promoting the organic development of political and religious structures and our ways of thinking about them.
2014-08-05 19:57
National Catholic Reporter Senior Analyst Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., comments on the recent decision by the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship (CDW) to leave the contentious&n&hell…Read More
2014-07-30 17:59
This blog has been silent for the last three months, waiting to see if Pope Francis will actually deliver on his promising start as Bishop of Rome. His revival of a liberation-the… Read More
2014-04-26 17:34
Religious and public media are abuzz with tomorrow's planned joint canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in Rome -- a first in the history of the Catholic Church and also the… Read More
2014-03-19 20:40
Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister writes a regular column for The National Catholic Reporter called "From Where I Stand." In the latest column, New 'religious' group just as deadly as… Read More
2013-12-06 18:40
Jeff Dietrich, who has been a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker for over forty years, has published in the National Catholic Reporter a commentary hailing Pope Francis that I find ju… Read More
2013-12-04 15:48
In an important new article in the National Catholic Reporter, Hans Kung -- the theological nemesis of every pope since Vatican II -- suggests that (1) the current head of the Congregation f… Read More
2013-11-22 18:19
The National Catholic Reporter has also posted an important article noting that over fifty Catholic academics in a dozen countries have signed a statement calling "the church's teachings on… Read More
2013-11-22 18:07
The National Catholic Reporter has run several more articles on the questionnaire issued to prepare for the 2014-2015 Synod on the Family.Among the most helpful was Lay Groups Launch Surveys… Read More
2013-11-15 15:29
There has been quite a buzz over the announcement November 5th that, in preparation for a 2014-2015 Synod on the Family, Pope Francis has asked for input from Catholics around the world on s… Read More
2013-08-13 16:26
This blog has repeatedly referred readers to columns by Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist in 2008 and, since 1999, op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Sometimes this is n… Read More
2013-07-18 19:33
The National Catholic Reporter posted an article July 15, 2013, about Bert Thelen, a Jesuit priest almost 80 years old who is resigning from the order and the priesthood after 45 years of se… Read More
2013-04-16 17:55
An article posted this morning in the National Catholic Reporter by publisher Thomas C. Fox says Vatican Radio reports that in a homily today at the communal residence where he lives,&n&hell…Read More
2013-04-12 20:23
In this 2008 photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left, travels on the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, was known for taking the subway and mingling wi… Read More
2013-03-01 17:32
A non-Catholic friend in the San Francisco Bay area, who knows my passion for getting Rome to end its treason toward Vatican II, alerted me to an excellent op-ed piece posted yeste… Read More
2013-02-28 16:07
My posting on February 6th wondered if the Obama Administration's latest olive branch on contraception coverage would prove to be a win for Catholic progressives.Well, as The National Cathol… Read More
2013-02-06 21:43
On February 1, 2013, the Obama administration offered a new olive branch to the Catholic Church in the controversy over the contraception coverage mandated for all health insurance policies… Read More
2012-11-20 21:43
The headline to this post is a quotation from award-winning Director Ang Lee. It's part of his lengthier comments on the arduous, multi-year process during which he led 2,000 peop… Read More
2012-11-08 21:30
Most Texans think the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case was a perfectly fine idea.Since it allowed mega-rich corporations the legal status of individual persons and af… Read More
2012-10-25 20:18
I did not become aware until this morning, but the National Catholic Reporter informed us on October 5th that, the day before, the Very Reverend Marc Andrus, the Episcopal Bishop o… Read More
2012-10-18 15:07
Thanks to Dennis Coday of the National Catholic Reporter for focusing national attention on a Lutheran bishop's argument that Catholic bishops have no right to impose their official oppositi… Read More
2012-09-19 20:02
There have been plenty of responses to Mitt Romney pronouncement that half of all Americans are freeloaders. Just about all have said that Romney is wrong. (Well, there… Read More
2012-09-18 16:23
Citing reports from Religion News Service and Catholic News Service, the National Catholic Reporter says that the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Di… Read More
2012-09-18 16:02
In an op-ed piece in today's Houston Chronicle Ronald L. Trowbridge warns radical right Texas officials that vouchers for private schools will lead to more government, not less. And fo… Read More
2012-08-11 17:35
In a column slated to appear in the August 20th print edition of Time Magazine, Fareed Zakaria explains that we have so many more horrific gun killings in the United States than any place el… Read More
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