By Noelle Mering “If you don’t understand the wave, you can’t respect it. And if you don’t have respect, it’s only a matter of time before the ocean teaches you to get some.” — Laird Hamilton One of the first things a child learns in encountering the ocean is that it is much bigger than […]
by Brandon Showalter At the conclusion of an extraordinary year, the MA in Human Rights cohort had the privilege of meeting and connecting with Prof. Robert Destro of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America. His areas of expertise include international human rights, religious freedom, and bioethics. Destro served as the […]
Clifford Humphrey, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology, wrote about the nature of religious liberty in the United States in American Reformer.
By David Cloutier Commencing his first papal document, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis warned, “There are Christians whose lives seem like Lent without Easter.” An occupational hazard for the moral theologian? Possibly. The Lenten psalm obviously relates to moral theology: “be merciful O Lord for we have sinned”! But what about “He is risen”? What do […]
By Dr. John McNerney We go for our people Edith and Rosa Stein both died at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1942. The story is told how when the Nazis came to the Carmelite convent in Echt, Holland, to arrest the sisters because of their Jewish background, Edith said: ‘come Rosa. We’re going for […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia Throughout March, myriad celebrations of “Women’s History Month” unfold. I understand the sentiment behind this and see the great value in recognizing the contributions that so many of my sisters, past and present, have made to building our society. This is particularly true when it comes to celebrating those who have too […]
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