Brexit Crisis Is Reminder Of Catholic Commitment To European Union (Kevin Ahern)
The following article on Brexit is reprinted with permission from Daily Theology. Kevin Ahern is one of PTT’s contributors. The historic vote this week by a slim majority of the British people to leave...
View ArticleSpeeches of Two Women Frame Pope Francis’ Visit to the US-Mexico Border...
The following are translations of speeches given by two women – Daisy Flores Gámez and Evelia Quintana Molina – in Juarez during the Pope’s visit in February 2016. Although the Pope’s speech at the...
View ArticleThe Future of Public Theology (Daniel R. DiLeo)
The following is adapted from a talk given at the conference “Public Theology and the Global Common Good,” held at Boston College on October 15. At this year’s vice-presidential debate, Governors Tim...
View ArticleDreaming Beyond A Tale of Two Relationships – The Relationship of the...
This is the first post in our Symposium on Catholic Political Theology and the 2016 Elections. Future posts will appear on Fridays in the following weeks. In his book The Audacity of Hope, President...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty and the Throwaway Culture (Matthew Shadle)
After a series of dramatic appeals reaching all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, last night the State of Arkansas put Ledell Lee to death in the state’s first execution since 2005. Lee’s execution...
View ArticleComments on Cardinal Cupich’s Consistent Ethic of Solidarity (Matthew A. Shadle)
In April, Cardinal Blasé Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, gave the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Common Cause Inaugural Address at Loyola University in Chicago, and this address was recently published by...
View ArticleA Problem Like Maria – Saving Lives in an Age of Climate Catastrophe...
When Hurricane Maria made landfall just south of Yabucoa Harbor in Puerto Rico in the early hours of Wednesday, September 20, it unleashed its force on an island already reeling from the impact of Irma...
View ArticleNature and Creation in Laudato Si’: The Autonomy of Earthly Affairs Rightly...
In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis proposes that we ought to look at the natural world in two distinct but complementary ways: as “nature” and as “creation.” As “nature,” we see the world...
View ArticleThe Recovery Of Indigenity In South America – Not All Political Theologies...
Recently activists used firebombs at multiple church’s in Chile to protest a visit by Pope Francis. No one was hurt. Pamphlets left at the scenes stated that the bombings were to signal ongoing...
View ArticleTurkey Trouble in Florida
In Florida and elsewhere, communities facing technological and environmental risks do well to adopt the ethics and politics of precaution.Source
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