Showing posts with label Margaret Farley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Farley. Show all posts
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Pope Francis on Families and Their Gifts, John McNeill and Margaret Farley on Fruitfulness of Gay Relationships: Generativity Depends on Ecclesial and Social Support

›
What Catholic theologian John McNeill is pointing to in the quotation I shared with you yesterday  is very much like what Catholic th...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Francis Effect: Putting Rhetoric Together with Reality on Eve of Pope's Visit (1)

›
On the eve of Pope Francis's visit to the U.S., I've been collecting information that, to my way of thinking, provides somethin...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Blog Readers and Teachable Moments for the Catholic Community: "This Diversity Is Completely Absent from What Passes for Discourse in the Catholic Media"

›
In her comments at the recent Commonweal   panel discussion of the topic "Fortress or Field Hospital?" that I discussed ...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Commonweal's "Fortress or Field Hospital?" Discussion: Margaret Farley on Natural Law Theology and Church's Obligation to Learn from Married Same-Sex Couples

›
Yesterday, Commonweal  sponsored a panel discussion of the topic "Fortress or Field Hospital?" Commonweal editor Mollie Wilson ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

NCR Editorial: "Francis Needs to Re-Examine His Statements" about Contraception "If He Wants to Be the Pastor We Think He Can Be"

›
A National Catholic Reporter   editorial addresses the pope's statements about contraception and family planning in the Philippi...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Another Reprise: Margaret Farley's Challenge to Make Love of Gay Persons Just in Christian Churches, and the Vatican Synod on the Family

›
Here's a reprise of another sort today: I published the excerpt below (from Margaret Farley's book Just Love ) on November ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Rebecca Solnit on Struggle to Name the Significance of Isla Vista Shootings as "Watershed Moment in the History of Feminism"

›
In yesterday's New York Times , Charles Blow continues the post-Isla Vista drumbeat of insistence that men, all men, need to fac...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Catholic Sexual Ethics and the Category of Justice: A Reminder about Margaret Farley's Pioneering Work

›
Yesterday, as I looked at the statement made by German moral and pastoral theologians in response to Pope Francis's call for in...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

People Talking--About Religion, Gay Folks, Women, Pope Francis, Etc.

›
Some recent commentary on these issues well worth reading:
Friday, September 13, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: On Homosexuality

›
I've begun reading Matthew Fox's recent book Letters to Pope Francis , and thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

A Reader Writes: Jesus's Death as a Scapegoat Abolishes Scapegoating in an Ultimate Way

›
On Monday, I wrote , 
Monday, January 21, 2013

The Vatican Hurls Down Answers, Catholic Women Keep Asking Questions: Give Me the Questions

›
The Vatican can tell powerful Catholic women theologians and spiritual thinkers (e.g., Margaret Farley and Elizabeth Johnson )* to shut...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

The Vatican Attacks, the Vatican Protects: Catholics in Lonely Exile Seek Advent Hope

›
This is what our Catholic church has chosen to become under its current leadership:
Thursday, November 8, 2012

The Challenge Now Facing American Catholics: Paying Attention to What Bubbles Up from Catholic Sewers

›
Meanwhile (this is a postscript to what I just posted about the important, much-appreciated contribution of Catholics too numerous to ...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: The Challenge to Make Love of Gay Persons Just in Christian Churches

›
A final set of excerpts from Margaret Farley's book  Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006): ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: Just Love Is About Real Persons and Their Concrete Reality

›
More excerpts from Margaret Farley's  Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006): these strike me...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: More on Theories of Gender Complementarity

›
More from Margaret Farley on the notion of gender complementarity that has come to play such a central role in the theologies of mal...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Talking about Sex: Hasidism, Catholicism, and Republican Politics

›
In J ust Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006), Margaret Farley notes the widely divergent un...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: Feminist Questions about Notions of Gender Complementarity

›
Another excerpt from Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006), which, to my min...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: The Personal as Political (and Applications to U.S. Presidential Debate)

›
Several days ago, when I told readers I had begun reading Margaret Farley's book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Et...