In the last 75 years, the worldwide Christian Church has seen two movements that have unquestionably transformed the contemporary Christian Church. The first one, the Pentecostal Movement, began in the United States in the first part […]
Author: John P. Slattery
John P. Slattery is the Director of the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University. He is also a consultant for the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. An ethicist, theologian, and historian of science, Slattery works at the intersection of technology, science, religion, and racism. He is the author of the 2019 Faith and Science at Notre Dame and the editor of the 2020 Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences. His essays have appeared in Commonweal Magazine, Science, Religion Dispatches, and Daily Theology.
Frozen’s “True Love” and the Duty of St. Joan of Arc
Today, May 30, is the feast of St. Joan of Arc, that 15th century mystic, visionary, and soldier whose life has touched millions of people for the last few hundred years. While I am not […]
The Tragedy of Catholicism and Race on the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States is overwhelmingly composed of Roman Catholics. Of the nine justices, six affirm themselves as Roman Catholic, while the other three self-identify as Jewish. This is a very new phenomenon, in place only […]
Upcoming Bishops’ Synod Could Allow Married Men to Become Priests
Today, the Tablet-UK reported, that in an interview given to Salzburger Nachrichten, Bishop Erwin Kräutler (Bishop of Xingu in the Brazilian rainforest) states that the Pope told him directly that he “was open-minded about finding solutions to the […]
3rd Sunday of Lent: The Samaritan Woman, or, St. Photini
Every now and then someone comes along and transforms our life forever. It just seems to happen–as if we were sitting there, every day, waiting for our life to be changed. Even if we are […]
Where are Pope Francis’ Binders Full of Women?
Today, on International Women’s Day, Pope Francis named the members of his new and very influential “Council for the Economy,” which he recreated on February 24. On this council are eight cardinals and seven laypersons. […]
Pope Francis’ Hidden Precedent: The Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs #tbt
While perusing Church history today in the hopes of editing an article, I came across one of those rare gems that helps to explain the current situation of the church. As we all know, last […]
Scripture Crying out for Orphans: Mother Mary Lange and “the other” St. Jerome, #tbt
Today, February 6th, is nestled between the feasts of two extraordinary people. Saturday, February 8th, is the feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, who lived right around the time of the Reformation and devoted much of […]
Finding the Face of God in Auschwitz: International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2014
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked to note when the largest of the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated in 1945. There is so much one could say, and so many others who could say […]
The Untold Story of Harriet Thompson in the Battle for Racial Equality in Catholicism #tbt
I’d like to bring a little history into our daily theological walk today, and to reflect on the nature of what it means to do theology every day. On the one hand, this phrase, daily […]
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