Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Monday, October 2, 2017

Back from Trip, Thinking About American Catholicism, the "Both-Sides" False Equivalency Argument, and Ethics of Survival

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I'm sorry to have been silent for a week. Steve and I spent last week in New Orleans visiting friends and family, and as we did so,...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Keeping the Moral Center Alive in Age of Retrenchment: Valuable Commentary from Last Week

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There have to be very low circles reserved in hell for people who laugh while removing healthcare coverage from... https://t.co/YKS444hn...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Brittmarie Janson Perez, "On the Informal Powers Trump Brings to the Presidency"

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I'm honored today to have an outstanding, timely, minatory (as in, warning us of a threat we'd be foolish to ignore) essay to...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

For Consideration: Assortment of Thought-Provoking Statements About Current Events and Ethics — from Trump to Prosperity-Gospel Preachers to Churches and LGBTQ People

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As the first work week of 2017 gets underway following the New Year's holiday, here's a collection of items I've read in ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Those Gotcha Planned Parenthood Videos Again: Where There's No Novum, There's No Spirit — On the Dead Thinking, Rhetoric, and Tactics of the Anti-Abortion Movement

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Three days ago, Colleen left a powerful comment here. She writes, 
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Purity and Danger: On the Racist Subtext of Current U.S. Debates about Latino Immigrant Children and the Ebola Virus

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Some days lately as I read the news, I wonder, "Did Mary Douglas have some kind of crystal ball that allowed her to see fifty y...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Financial Transparency Emerges as Major Theme in St. Paul-Minneapolis Abuse Story: Outstanding MPR Report (and Nicole Sotelo on Knights of Columbus)

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To my mind, one of the strangest claims that apologists for the Catholic hierarchy who want to assist the hierarchy by bashing survivors ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Catholic Ethicist Daniel Maguire on Pope's Interview as End of the Catholic Church's "Pelvic Zone Orthodoxy"

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Catholic ethicist Daniel Maguire on Pope Francis's comments in the interview released yesterday:
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

In Memoriam: Beverly Wildung Harrison and Tissa Balasuriya

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 Two very important Christian theologians have died in recent weeks, and I'd like to take note of both of them and their contribution...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Why I Keep Blogging: People Are Suffering (and Notes on Margaret Farley's Vatican Condemnation)

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My reasons for thinking it's important for everyone to think about these issues is because people are suffering. All over the place...