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But Where Were His Parents? A Reflection on the Man Born Blind
I hope it might lead us all to reflect on how we—either as families or individuals—are living out our responsibilities to our communities. Continue reading
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Jubilee
It’s been over a year since I last shared something here at WIT Blog, but it hasn’t been for lack of trying. The last two years of weathering a mini-apocalypse/global pandemic has been world-shifting in so many ways, some that… Continue reading
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Trauma at the Border: Is the Bond Between Criminalized Parent and Child Sacred as Well?
The Trump administration’s decision to rip immigrant parents from their children is evil. This is as obvious to me as the color of the sky. Many U.S.-Americans-although not nearly enough-have raised their voices in righteous protest against this misuse of… Continue reading
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A Catholic Grandmother Reflects on Pope Francis, Kim Davis, and the Power of Encounter
WIT is delighted to bring you the following guest post from Rosa Manriquez, IHM. We are particularly grateful for her unique perspective and powerful witness. Rosa is a mother and grandmother, a member of the Immaculate Heart Community, a Roman Catholic… Continue reading
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High Horses & the Starving Faithful: Thoughts on Sex, God, & Belonging
“That’s a fine looking high horse. What you got in the stable? We’ve got a lot of starving faithful. That looks tasty, that looks plenty. This is hungry work. Take me to church, I’ll worship like a dog at the… Continue reading
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Work-Life Balance and Parenting Styles: Bringing Up Bébé
A few days after I wrote my last post on work-life balance in academia, a dialogue broke out between the Catholic Moral Theology blog and Women in Theology about work-life balance in the context of motherhood in academia. My post… Continue reading
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Selfishness, Selflessness, and the Work-Life Balance in Academia
One of the things that I struggle with in graduate school is finding the work-life balance that allows me to be content with the amount of work that I put in and still take time for myself that allows me… Continue reading
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Trauma, Suffering and Childbirth
The trauma of sexual abuse and rape benefit from a clear understanding of suffering as bestowing no kind of benefit to the victim and as entirely opposed by God. Yet, the suffering of childbirth is a different case. But, this… Continue reading
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Work and Family Balance: Some Open Questions
Last week I wrote about Anne-Marie’s Slaughter’s piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” In this post, I attempted to highlight the problematic gender assumptions undergirding Slaughter’s argument, the most important one being the uncritical claim that women qua… Continue reading