By Rufus Burnett, Jr., and Steven Battin “When you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to […]
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American Christianity in Trump’s America
By Kyle Haden, OFM, Ph.D., The moniker ‘Christian’ has lost a good deal of credibility in the last several years. In the Catholic lexicon it has been stained by years of sexual scandals. In mainline […]
St. Clare’s Monstrance and Courage
By Jessica Coblentz Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2015. On this feast of St. Clare, I envision her in a simple brown habit at the window of the monastery dormitory, and the […]
The Middle Class, the Poorest of the Poor, & Solidarity in the Philippines’ Covid Crisis
By Stephanie Ann Puen Being from the Philippines, a colleague and I discussed the current debate and discourse on the “middle class versus the poor” happening in our country. An open letter from a “middle […]
The Pain of the Uncommuned
By Katherine G. Schmidt “So what happens,” I ask my Religion and Media students every semester, “when we can 3-D print the Eucharistic host?” At this point in the lecture, we’ve long determined that the […]
Why Aren’t We Talking About Chemical Castration?
By David Byrne On June 10th a law was signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey that compels people convicted of sexual offenses on victims under 13 to be chemically castrated prior to and post […]
Statement of Ethicists Without Borders: “Christian Ethics, Climate Emergency and Nonviolent Direct Action”
Christian Ethics, Climate Emergency and Nonviolent Direct Action We are in the midst of a planetary mass extinction event, driven by human actions and sustained by unjust social structures and political institutions. Climate disruption, biodiversity […]
The Problem With Lists: Accountability and the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
By Megan K. McCabe and B. Kevin Brown On December 7, 2018, Jesuits West released the names of its members, past and present, who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors and vulnerable adults. […]
“Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency”: A Statement from Christian Ethicists Without Borders
Statement: Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency Our Ecological Emergency Human activity is now driving a complex, dynamic process of environmental destabilisation across the whole of God’s Earth, at a scale and pace unprecedented in human […]
An Updated Catholic Abuse Crisis Syllabus
Editor’s Note: This syllabus was created by Dr. Catherine R. Osborne and originally appeared on DT in September 2018. In light of US bishops’ week of reflection on the abuse crisis in January, and the […]
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