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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Market Economy vs Market Society
John Coleman, S.J. blogs about What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012). A couple of choice snippets: Sandel has no problems with markets and the economy. But he laments that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Economics, Moral theology
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Six Eight Months Later*
(*I meant to write this after six months, but life’s been busy!) Well, it’s been six eight months now since we bade farewell to the ICEL translation of the Roman Missal and started using the new, so I thought I’d … Continue reading
Among the Western theological developments the East missed during this period were the definition of original sin as hereditary guilt; the rise of tariff penance with its consequent notions of satisfaction for sin, purgatory and indulgences; and the medieval sacramental … Continue reading
Open Letter to NCAA and Penn State from a Catholic
Dear people, I am not a sports fan, but perhaps this gives me the same kind of useful outsider’s perspective that non-Catholics had on the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church. The similarities in the two situations are, … Continue reading
Posted in Moral theology, Uncategorized
Tagged catholic, paterno, penn state, scapegoat, sex abuse scandal, structural sin
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Justification: More Views
This week I worked my way through the rest of Justification: Five Views. Michael Bird’s discussion of the Progressive Reformed perspective places the judicial metaphor in the context of Paul’s other language that draws on relational, covenantal, and eschatological themes … Continue reading
Posted in soteriology
Tagged justification, new perspective, orthodox, paul, Reformed, theosis
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A Higgs boson walked into a Catholic church. The priest came quickly bustling down the aisle and said, “Excuse me, but you’ll have to leave — we don’t allow your kind here.” “But Father,” the Higgs boson said, “without me, … Continue reading
In African thought it is the concept of Bumuntu (genuine humanity) that guides theological doctrines. A faith is authentic when it enhances human flourishing and when “orthodoxy” is reconciled with “orthopraxis” for the great common good and the greater glory … Continue reading
Religious Liberty: Theology, Law & Effects on the Church
This was the title of an event that I attended at my parish last Thursday, related to the “Fortnight of Freedom” campaign spearheaded by the US Catholic bishops (most notably the recently appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, William Lori). From the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Moral theology
Tagged catholic, church and state, feminist, fortnight of freedom
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Gaudete Theology 
Researching Romans: Trent, Calvin, and Contemporary Commentaries
Well, having hauled my brain off strike after it had its week off, I have managed to get myself organized for the research paper for my independent study. Since what I’m really interested in is how Paul is perceived and … Continue reading →
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