By Jennifer Owens-Jofré Luke 3:1-6 From the start of this Gospel passage, the Evangelist is sensitive to political and religious power, telling his reader who is in charge. In the midst of the everyday workings […]
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Grace, Social Action and the Immaculate Conception
Mary’s act of humility and boldness serves a model for us. Mary is neither passive nor prideful. Filled with God’s grace, Mary allows herself to be led by the Spirit to undertake bold actions as a parent, prophet, and follower of Christ.
Hospitality and Solidarity, Not Hostility and Hate: Statement of Christian Ethicists Without Borders on Anti-Semitism, Racism, & Xenophobia
Hospitality and Solidarity, Not Hostility and Hate: Christian Ethicists Without Borders’ Statement on Anti-Semitism, Racism, & Xenophobia 31 October 2018 Last year, in response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11th […]
Young Catholics and the Synod: Statement by Global Youth Movements to the Synod
Over the past two years, we have been involved in an international research project to study and engage best practices in student and young adult apostolates.[1] We have collected good practices and models of small […]
Response of Dr. Jason Steidl to First Things’ Nic Rowan
This letter, by guest contributor Jason Steidl, responds to “Out at St. Paul,” a piece written by Nic Rowan and published online by First Things on September 4, 2018. Dr. Steidl previously contacted First Things to […]
A Catholic Abuse Crisis Syllabus (v3)
Editor’s Note: The most recent version of this syllabus can also be seen in an updated post at https://dailytheology.org/2019/01/17/an-updated-catholic-abuse-crisis-syllabus/. By Catherine R. Osborne, Ph.D. In the spirit of the Ferguson Syllabus and other crowdsourced collections […]
Clericalism, Conversion, and Church Reform
By B. Kevin Brown Since the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on clergy sexual abuse was released, several news articles, commentaries, blogs, and Pope Francis’ Letter to the People of God all have helpfully pointed to […]
Healing a Betrayed and Wounded Body: An Invitation to Share Stories
How is your parish or diocese responding to the abuse crisis? What structures are changing? Who is speaking up? Send your story to dailytheo@gmail.com. Last week, Daily Theology hosted two responses to the release of […]
Accountability in the Catholic Church?: A Call for Greater Organizational Ethics
By Stephanie Ann Puen The recent release of the sex abuse grand jury report in Pennsylvania that details the systemic sexual abuse and cover up by the Catholic church hierarchy has been overwhelming, horrible, shameful, […]
Four Incomplete Ways of Reforming the Church
In the paragraphs below, four Daily Theology contributors respond individually to the question: “As a theologian, what church reform do you think is necessary to address the systemic enabling of sexual abuse in the Catholic church?” […]
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