On this, the closing of the Extraordinary Year of Mercy in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis released his latest encyclical letter, Misericordia et Misera. It is a relatively short letter (around 15 pages printed) and gets […]
Category: Justice
A SANCTUARY…CHURCH…CAMPUS…COMMUNITY
In the year 399 in Constantinople, the wealthy government official Eutropius, a man known for his lavish lifestyle and attempts to strip churches of their right to serve as a sanctuary for the persecuted, entered […]
Black Suffering/White Revelation
By Christopher Pramuk, Xavier University. Ten years ago, I published a major article in Theological Studies entitled “`Strange Fruit’: Black Suffering / White Revelation.” It was for me an important attempt to wrestle with the […]
Fifteen Years Later
Everyone of a certain age has a memory, a story, a narrative, a “where were you?” of that life-changing, history-altering day. Here is mine, offered with humility. It was a beautiful, blue-skied, unusually cool early […]
This is not a new normal
In case you haven’t heard, over the past two days, two more young black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers. Mr. Sterling was shot by officers in Baton Rouge, LA, while […]
The Responsibility of Being a Prophetic People: Holy Thursday, Martyrdom, and the Feast of Blessed Óscar Romero
On Holy Thursday, the Roman Catholic church celebrates both a Chrism Mass in the morning and the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Every March 24th since 1980, the church also remembers the martyrdom of […]
Science, Faith, and Horror in Flint, Michigan
It shouldn’t have surprised me to watch Donald Trump say that he openly supports forms of torture far worse than waterboarding, but it did. It is hard to write during an election season, politics being what they […]
M.I.A., Refugees, & the Church–“What’s up with that?”
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
Accompanying Survivors: Holding Trauma and Doing It Well
For the past year, I have served my campus community as a deputy coordinator in the university’s process for adjudicating Title IX complaints. Sexual violence falls under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 […]
Please do NOT pardon the interruption: Ezekiel, prophetic imagination, and mercy in contemporary social movements
“What the Church does with its creeds and its doctrinal tradition… it flattens out all the images and metaphors to make it fit into a nice formulation and then it’s deathly. So we have to […]
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