Showing posts with label natural law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural law. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels: Book Notes

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I've just finished reading the new book by the noted French Dominican Thomist scholar Reverend Adriano Oliva, Amours: L'Églis...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

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

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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...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: World Meeting of Families "Greasing the Skids Under Gay Folks and Their Families" and Assuring Them Catholic Church Doesn't Want Them

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EyeTee responds to David Gibson's report at National Catholic Reporter about the choice of the organizers of the upcoming World ...
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"

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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

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Yesterday, Commonweal  sponsored a panel discussion of the topic "Fortress or Field Hospital?" Commonweal editor Mollie Wilson ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Lisa Fullam and Gary Gutting on Catholic Natural Law Theology and Need for New Approach to Sexual Ethics

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When I read Lisa Fullam's recent Commonweal essay about contraception and Gary Gutting's New York Times essay about unraveling...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Robert Mickens on Pope Francis, Contraception, and Neo-Malthusian Schemes of Developed Nations: My Response

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And then, of course, there's Robert Mickens's interpretation of Humanae Vitae  and the ban on use of artificial contraceptiv...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "The Bodies Become Fully United at, Well, to Be Blunt, Ejaculation in the Vagina"

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At the Little Catholic Bubble blog site, Bethany writes , The bodies become fully united at, well, to be blunt, ejaculation in th...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Catholic Moral Theologian Lisa Fullam: An Argument for a Catholic Moral Obligation to Support Civil Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

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At Bondings 2.0, Catholic moral theologian Lisa Fullam  takes a careful look at the U.S. Catholic Bishops' argument that Catholic...
Monday, February 24, 2014

More Reports in Preparation for Vatican Synod on the Family: Spain, Japan, Diocese of Westminster, England, United States

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As a new work week begins, I want to mention a few more reports that have recently been issued summarizing the response of lay Cathol...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "It's Not Natural" (2)

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Here are two more excerpts from John Corvino's book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013). As with the last tw...
Monday, February 10, 2014

John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "It's Not Natural"

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Some more sharp observations from John Corvino's book   What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013)--these from his c...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sister Jeannine Gramick Tells a Story of a Transgendered Young Man: Catholic Readers React

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At National Catholic Reporter , Sister Jeannine Gramick  discusses the case of Isaac Gomez, who was born biologically female, but who...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Breaking News: Avila Resigns from USCCB Position

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Breaking news: an email from Truth Wins Out containing this press release has just popped into my email inbox.  It states that Danie...

The Gays + the Devil: More Resources about Boston Catholic Controversy (with Theological Reflections)

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After I posted yesterday about the kerfuffle over Daniel Avila's recent gays + devil column in the Boston Catholic archdiocesan pa...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and Occupy Wall Street

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This could well be a sign held by an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator:  Those things which some possess in excess of reasonable ne...
Monday, September 12, 2011

On the Whys and Wherefores of the Female Orgasm: Impressions of Recent Research

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I am, God knows, hardly an expert on the female orgasm.  So anything I have to say on that topic ought to be taken with a mountain of s...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Marriage Equality Debate, Nature, and Reason: Historical Perspectives

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One of the primary props of those arguing against marriage equality in the U.S. today is the constantly advanced argument that the "na...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

New Scientific Findings Confirm Catholic Magisterial Teachings about Sex? Semen as "Better Gift Than Chocolate" for Women

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This is one of the crazy corners of American scientific research about which I'll freely admit I know next to nothing.  I first becam...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Orphan Trains and Symphysiotomy (and Catholic Connections): Two Recent Items Worth Reading

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  Though Gerelyn Hollingsworth evidently finds my writing blowsy, I have always found hers sprightly.  I like her wry (and often, subtly irr...