Thomas Aquinas
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The Failure To Bother To Love: On Ignorance and Ableism
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Privilege as Blindness: Why North American Christians Need Haiti” for the online theology journal, The Other Journal. In it, I argued that social privilege impairs the privileged person’s ability to see… Continue reading
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Men Pray the Rosary Too: Against a “Theology of Women”
Last month, on the way back from his spectacularly successful trip to Brazil, Pope Francis offered some off the cuff comments that sent the Catholic blogosphere buzzing. While re-affirming the church’s longstanding prohibition on the ordination of women, Pope Francis… Continue reading
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“Look Away, Look Away:” Brad Paisley and the Lie of “Accidental Racism”
A few days ago, country music star Brad Paisley teamed up with rapper LL Cool J to release a twangy inter-disciplinary apologia for the wearing of the Stars and Bars. In the oddly entitled “Accidental Racist,” Paisley whines a litany… Continue reading
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If Catholics Should Give Up Hospitals For Lent, Should We Also Give Up The Military?
Several Catholic bishops have threatened that, if made to comply with the HHS ruling requiring Catholic hospitals to indirectly pay for their employees’ birth control, the Catholic church will have no choice but to “give up its health care institutions… Continue reading
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Homosexuality Is Not Like Alcoholism
Apparently, the most popular way to argue against homosexuality these days is to compare it to alcoholism. Seriously. I have been hearing this a lot lately. A representative version of this argument goes something like this: “just as we wouldn’t… Continue reading
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Creation and the Killing of Non-Human Animals
As most of you have probably heard by now, yesterday, in an incomprehensibly bizarre and senseless act, the owner of a private wildlife reserve near the small town of Zanesville, Ohio set free all 56 of the “exotic” animals in… Continue reading
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Courage and the Church
It is heartbreaking to hear misogynist, homophobic, racist coming from the same white man every Sunday at church, when I can look around and see that there are so many other important voices that should be heard belonging to the… Continue reading
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Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space
On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading