justice

  • 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

  • Was It Worth It?

    Let’s assume that Jesus never said, “love your enemies,” or “do good to those who persecute you.”  Let’s forget that Jesus told Peter to put the sword away, (if you can’t use the sword to defend the life of Jesus,… Continue reading

  • The 43rd Anniversary of MLK, Jr.’s Assassination

    “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native place.”  Luke 4:28 It is easy to forget that, at the time of his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a beloved figure.  He was considered a… Continue reading

  • What Are We Doing In Libya?

    If your 8 year old daughter’s principal announced that she was implementing a bold new anti-bullying policy aimed at protecting her students from being victims of harassment and violence, you would probably be happy, wouldn’t you? But what if the… Continue reading

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning

    If we listen to the stories of all women, not just those for whom natural family planning works in the way that the magisterium says that it does, we will see that natural family planning is not always good.  In… Continue reading

  • Who Are the Soldiers of the Body of Christ?

    Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, I have been hearing some version of the following prayed as a petition during mass:  “for the safety of our troops.”  Sometimes, the prayer has also identified “our” troops as those… Continue reading

  • Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Crew on Libya

    This is one of those times when Jon Stewart says it best.  In this first video, Stewart interviews “Senior Libyan Correspondent” Aasif Mandvi on the war, er, I mean “coalition partnership imposing a no fly zone through a military operation”… Continue reading

  • Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons

    Although the magisterium of the Catholic church insists that violence against homosexuals is always wrong, it also depicts homosexuals as a grave threat to society: homosexual unions do “violence” to children raised within these unions[1], homosexuals are a threat to… Continue reading