Can Catholic Theology Thrive at a Public University?

Millennial writer Nichole Flores has a new article at America: Moving from Saint Anselm’s college to a public university, I was confronted with questions about how I would teach the Catholic theological tradition in an institution founded, in part, to keep theology on the margins of academic discourse. Thomas Jefferson gave architectural representation to this… Read More Can Catholic Theology Thrive at a Public University?

The Case for a Consistent Ethic of Solidarity

In Commonweal, Cardinal Blase Cupich discusses the legacy of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s consistent ethic of life approach and outlines his views of a consistent ethic of solidarity: …Catholic social teaching would not and could not be fitted into the partisan political framework that governs American public life, then or now. Yet this also explains the… Read More The Case for a Consistent Ethic of Solidarity

Pope Francis Meets with Huntington’s Disease Patients

via AP: Pope Francis embraced weeping mothers, fathers and children with Huntington’s Disease on Thursday as he sought to remove the stigma of an incurable genetic disorder that causes such devastating physical and psychiatric effects that its sufferers are often shunned and abandoned. One by one, Francis blessed and greeted each of the family members… Read More Pope Francis Meets with Huntington’s Disease Patients