After analyzing M.I.A’s latest song and music video, this blog entry raises questions about what it means to be church in the midst of the refugee crisis and argues that when refugees drown, we the Church drown too
Category: Ecclesiology
DT Podcast Episode 16 – Natalia Imperatori-Lee
Welcome to the finale of season 1 of the podcast! As we go into hiatus until the new year, feast your ears on this insightful and funny conversation between Steve Okey and Natalia Imperatori-Lee! In […]
W.W.F.S.S.? Some thoughts on Ross Douthat and doctrine
What would Frank Sullivan Say? So the interwebs have been abuzz in the past 48 hours regarding New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s op-ed on Sunday entitled “The Plot to Change Catholicism.” Commentators have questioned […]
What’s So Great About Gregory the Great?
Today is the feast of St. Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome from 590 to 604. My use of “bishop of Rome” is intentional – as I will show in a moment, Gregory’s example as […]
Book Review on “Structures of Grace: Catholic Organizations Serving the Global Common Good”
Kevin Ahern, Structures of Grace: Catholic Organizations Serving the Global Common Good (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2015), pp. 224 Nearly half the world – over three billion people – live on less that $2.50 a […]
Holy Sense of the Faithful, Theologians!
My first graduate course in theology sucker-punched me. The subject was ecclesiology, and studying the church while thinking for the first time about the Holy Spirit’s work blew me away. One idea in particular caught my attention: the […]
A divided Salvadoran church—can it stand?
“Sshh, it’s not here,” is what a Franciscan sister quietly said to her two guests upon walking into the cathedral in San Salvador on Friday, May 22nd, the day before Romero’s beatification. After a couple […]
Thank you, Lance Armstrong (an ode to liberation theology)
In the summer of 2004, Lance Armstrong was God. The Tour de France raged from July 2 to July 25 that year, and I watched every minute. I had just graduated from Air Force ROTC […]
Finding Joy in Pope John XXIII
Looking for a last minute Christmas gift idea for an informed Catholic? If so, you might consider a fun—yet insightful—book about Saint John XXIII by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS, a skilled illustrator and artist. This […]
Introducing Theological Shark Week VI, What Should Pope Francis do on his Visit to the United States?
#WSFD What Should Pope Francis do on his Visit to the United States? October 2014 Pope Francis is expected to make his first visit to the United States in 2015. While nothing is formally confirmed, […]
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