Showing posts with label academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academy. Show all posts
Friday, April 29, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Requiescat in Pace, Ban on Giving Platforms and Honors to People Who Hold Views Contrary to Church Teaching

›
In a just-published essay at National Catholic Reporter , Father Thomas Reese calls on Catholic colleges and universities to bury th...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Score: Daniel, 1, Lions, 0--I Give My Testimony, I Survive

›
Whew. It's over. I gave my testimony yesterday, and I very definitely felt far less alone than I'd otherwise have felt, due t...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

A Quick Update: Still Waiting to Testify

›
I know this saga is getting to be a bore, but since I've told you all about it up to now, I don't want to leave hanging any r...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Just Logging In . . . With Gratitude, and An Update

›
Just logging in for a brief time this Tuesday morning, and I wanted to update all of you about the trial. But first, I want to expres...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Walking into the Lions' Den: I Ask for Readers' Help as I Testify in a Case Involving Faculty Rights

›
Dear Readers,
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Why Do Catholic Institutions Need Reform? Margaret Mary Vojtko

›
Why do the Catholic church and the institutions it sponsors need reform, you ask? Read this story :
Friday, November 23, 2012

Catholics in the News: Cardinal Newman Society Hyperactive after 2012 Elections

›
And in Catholic news as this Thanksgiving (in America) week ends--a series of consecutive postings  focusing on particular issues, begi...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Paterno as Pope and His Golden-Parachute Deal: More News about Penn State Nightmare

›
Howard Fineman on how Paterno and Penn State relentlessly branded the football team as a secular holy order with Paterno as pope:
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2012 Elections and Re-Claiming the Moral Center of Catholicism in the Public Square

›
That incisive moral analysis and strong moral values that so many American Catholics like Margery Eagan exhibit: where are they coming...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Frank Rich on Occupy Wall Street and Long-Term Fixes

›
Frank Rich writes yesterday at New York Magazine about what Occupy Wall Street signifies long-term for American culture and its politi...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Bearing Witness: Ongoing Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Employees in Catholic Institutions, Ten Takeaway Points

›
And so what’s the point I wanted to make with that diptych of confessional (as in autobiographical) posts (and here ) in the middle of the...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Two Snapshots of the Future of American Catholicism: Younger Catholics Dealing (or Not) with Injustice to Gay Brothers and Sisters

›
It's interesting (and very instructive, I think) to read these two articles as a diptych: two side-by-side snapshots of the future of...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Bearing Witness: Healing the Tear in the Soul of American Catholicism--A Call for National Dialogue (2)

›
This post continues the one preceding it: So here’s what happened.  When I wrote the first edition of the ethics textbook in 1989 ...

Bearing Witness: Healing the Tear in the Soul of American Catholicism--A Call for National Dialogue (1)

›
This is a post I find difficult to write.  Part of the reason for the difficulty is that this is a story that can be told from sever...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Commonweal Breaks Silence on Prop 8 Ruling: Are Judge Walker's Facts Really Facts?

›
I blogged some days ago (and here ) about the continuing silence at the center of American Catholicism—the continuing silence of the opin...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Power, Sociopaths, and Social Intelligence: Dacher Keltner on the Paradox of Power

›
  I’m fascinated by the research of psychologist Dacher Keltner re: power, which I’ve recently discovered through Andrew Sullivan’s Daily D...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Soul Struggle: Tending One's Own Garden or Speaking Truth to Power?

›
I’m struggling lately with a spiritual-journey question that seems to recycle itself through my experiences again and again in a karmic way....
Friday, July 31, 2009

Thom Hartmann on the CEO as Sociopath: Applications for Higher Education

›
Thom Hartmann posted an interesting piece at the Alternet site a few days ago. He suggests that, to be a successful CEO—particularly in th...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Overpaid CEOs and Higher Education: Continued Need for Critique

›
I posted a few days ago about the astonishing claim of CNBC commentator Mark Haines that we can’t expect Wall Street companies to be well ru...
Friday, March 20, 2009

CEOs, Meritocracy, and Values in Higher Education: The Witness of Mary McLeod Bethune

›
CNBC telejournalist Mark Haines made an interesting comment yesterday about the big men and women on top of the corporate world, and what th...