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When Magisterium Becomes Imperium: Peter Damian on the Accountability of Bishops for Scandal

[Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati has appropriately criticized the attempt to judge by today’s standards those bishops who in the past routinely reassigned clerical sexual ...

For What Shall We Repent? Reflections on the American Bishops Their Teaching and Slavery in the United States 1839-1861

[The author explores the intersection of history and theology, focusing on a theological analysis of the American Catholic response to slavery. The article places 19th-century ...

Foundations Once Destroyed: The Catholic Church and Criminal Justice

[On several occasions in recent years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have sought to present the Catholic position in matters pertaining to crime ...

Recognizing the Presence of Christ in the Liturgical Assembly

[The author discusses Christ’s presence as perceived and symbolized when an assembly gathers to celebrate Eucharist. Her article consists of four parts: (1) a brief ...

Remembering Rosa Parks: Recognizing a Contemporary Prophetic Act

[As the United States prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1955 act of civil disobedience by Rosa Parks, it is critical that any ...

The Indissolubility of Marriage: Reasons to Reconsider

[The present teaching of the Catholic Church on the doctrine of indissolubility of marriage has a complex history. It is based upon scriptural, sacramental, ethical, ...

Homosexuality and the Counsel fo the Cross

[The papal magisterium counsels gay Catholics to join their sufferings to the Cross of Christ. This counsel raises questions concerning its assumptions about the complex ...

The Magisterium’s Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage: An Ethical Analysis and Critique

[The author examines the arguments used by the magisterium against same-sex marriage. Most of these arguments have features that make them problematic for public debate ...

Hans urs von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theology

[The author initiates a dialogue between Hans Urs von Balthasar and contemporary feminist theology, focusing on three areas: theological anthropology, theological method, and Christology. Each ...

The Ethics of Trade Policy in Catholic Political Economy

[Increased international trade characterizes economic globalization. Three views of such trade can be found in Catholic political economy. (1) From the 1930s to the mid-1960s: ...

Cohabitation: Past and Present Reality: A Response to Lisa Sowle Cahill

[Social scientific research, here only briefly summarized, discriminates between nuptial cohabitors, who have already made the commitment to marry, and non-nuptial cohabitors, who have not ...

The Symbolic Realism of U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism

[The author argues that Latino/a popular Catholicism in the United States embodies important aspects of a non-modern Catholic worldview that have been obscured, or even ...

A Latino Practical Theology: Mapping the Road Ahead

[The author uses the pastoral circle or “see-judge-act” practical theological method to review the status of Hispanic/Latino ministry. He takes note of new research findings, ...

A Youthful Community: Theological and Ministerial Challenges

[The Latino/a community in the U.S. is the youngest in the nation. Ministry to this youthful community demands that attention be paid to the acculturation ...

Mestiza Spirituality: Community Ritual and Justice

[The author explores the wealth and complexity that mestiza consciousness and spirituality contribute to the theological enterprise. The mestiza consciousness is grounded in community and ...

Burlando al Opresor: Mocking/Tricking the Oppressor: Dreams and Hopes of Hispanas/Latinas and Mujeristas

[Hispanas/Latinas have turned marginalization into a creative space of struggle. Standing strong in our present day reality, we reach back, gathering wisdom and strength from ...

Imagenes de Dios en el Camino: Retablos Ex-Votos Milagritos Murals

[The author examines the importance of the ancient arts of retablos, ex-votos, and milagros. She suggests how border crossings from Latin America to the United ...

Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the New Millennium: Looking Back Looking Forward

[In this initial segment of this year’s “Notes on Moral Theology,” the author provides a survey of the literature centering on fundamental moral theology published ...

Intervention Just War and U.S. National Security

[Both the Bush administration’s national security strategy and the war with Iraq have provoked wide-ranging reaction and comment. Questions of how to assess the Bush ...

Beyond a Western Bioethics?

[Like theology and ethics generally, bioethics has increasingly developed a global consciousness. Controversies over AIDS research and access to affordable AIDS treatment have generated new ...
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