In response to the Vatican s investigation of women s religious congregations in the United States and of nbsp the Leadership Conference for Women Religious the main organizing body of women s religious congregations in this country the USCCB has announced the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover S J a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28 2012 nbsp Joe was sentenced on Easter Monday to ten

When Washington state s Governor Christine Gregoire signed signed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in that state opponents promised to wage a fierce campaign to prevent the law from going into effect through a ballot referendum The Archdiocese of Seattle has pledged to help gather signatures t

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I rsquo ve been arguing against moral anger ever since the day Dorothy Day chided me in a letter ldquo But isn rsquo t anger a sin rdquo At that period I was arguing that feminists should cultivate anger as a means to energize nbsp the struggle for women s equality

A few texts on taxation plus bonus references to the universal destination of goods and distributive justice Catechism of the Catholic Church nbsp 2240 Submission to authority and co-responsibility for the common good make it morally obligatory to pay taxes to exercise the right to vote and t

The American Psychological Association has over 50 divisions including interests such as teaching of psychology psychotherapy psychological testing neuropsychology psychology of peace and many other interesting areas Recently Division 36 mdash Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spiritua