Katie Grimes

  • Racial Inequality and Health

    Thanks to Meghan Clark of the blog Catholic Moral Theology (you can check out her latest post here) for introducing me to a very important documentary series, entitled Unnatural Causes, which chronicles the interconnection between racism/classism and health disparities. Thankfully for… Continue reading

  • Is Affirmative Action ‘Reverse Racism’?

    UC Berkeley’s College Republicans are putting on a “pay-by-race bake sale” in order to demonstrate what they consider to be the straightforwardly and obviously unjust nature of affirmative action, especially when used in the college admissions process. Their pricing menu… Continue reading

  • Is Moderation a Christian Virtue?

    In the Catholic universe, the claim that there is something inherently superior about taking the “middle position” is being made with increasing frequency. Those who advocate the supremacy of the middle position argue that, instead of picking sides, the rising… Continue reading

  • Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?

    In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading

  • A Double-Standard for Women and Violence In the Media?

    Recently, 23 year old R&B singer Rihanna released the music video for her song, “Man Down” in which she sings of the agony and terror she feels after killing a man who raped her.   In response, at least four… Continue reading

  • Artificial Insemination: St. Augustine’s Ideal Sex Act?

    The Catholic magisterium considers artificial insemination to be wrong, even in the case of a wife being artificially inseminated by her husband.  As Donum Vitae argues, “artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the… Continue reading

  • “Ethnic” Hymns in White Churches Take Two

    I want to follow-up on Sonja’s excellent and thought-provoking discussion of the singing of “ethnic” hymns in white churches by adding a few thoughts of my own. Before answering the question of whether predominantly white Christian communities should sing Negro… Continue reading

  • What the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Have In Common

    What does it say about us as a nation when even the killing of sleeping children is incapable of making us change our course? As Amy Davidson of the New Yorker reports, U.S. led NATO forces have killed four Afghan… Continue reading

  • Does God Bless the USA?

    United Statesians have always claimed to live in a nation blessed by God–white Americans interpreted the near complete destruction of certain Native American communities by smallpox as a sign of God’s blessing, believing that God had cleared the land of… Continue reading