This presidential election cycle has elicited a variety of reactions to the major party candidates. One of the more frequently heard refrains is, “I have to vote my conscience,” generally implying some protest vote against […]
Tag: Community
Scattered On The Hillside: Some Thoughts on Discipleship, Community, and Blogging
One of the most challenging aspects of moving away from Boston and beginning my new life in Montana was leaving my community behind. After ten years in that city, I had formed a tight friendship […]
Book Review: Catholic Women Speak
Catholic Women Speak Network, Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table (New York: Paulist Press, 2015). As I sit to write this review, the World Meeting of Families is underway in Philadelphia, and […]
The Fragility of Hope: Resisting a Culture of Sexual Violence
It begins when I hear a new story of sexual violence. I become angry; I join the outcry of other advocates. I listen to administrative grandstanding, I want to believe in the promises made. I […]
Open Letter to Pope Francis: Being Church at the Peripheries
Below is an open letter to Pope Francis written by two Daily Theology contributors, Kevin Ahern and Meg Stapleton Smith with the input from Catholic leaders from around the United States . This letter does […]
To Praise, To Bless, To Preach: The Value of Dominic in the Age of Big Personality
I was walking along the beach with my five-year-old son. We walked past families with young children like ours who had inevitably pressed some adult into the forced labor of giant hole digging. I confess […]
The Eucharist is an Act of Community
One of the central tenets of the Christian tradition is the community of believers. We are not single individuals, struggling along in a vast sea of humanity. We are a community–a collection of people, sharing […]
Oh the Movements of the Holy Spirit!
Karl Rahner once wrote, “Christians, for all their orthodox profession of faith in the Trinity, are almost just ‘monotheist’ in their actual religious experience. One might almost dare to affirm that if the doctrine of […]
Communion(s) of Saints
By Rev. Aaron Pidel, S.J. Among the achievements commonly credited to twentieth-century Catholic theology is the recovery of Christianity’s “social dimension.” As the standard account goes, yesterday’s Catholics remained blissfully absorbed in a solitary quest […]
Returning to the Camp
A reflection on the readings for the First Sunday of Lent “The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall […]
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