Charles C. Camosy

Charles C. Camosy is a professor of medical humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and holds the Msgr. Curran Fellowship in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He is the author of five books, including, most recently, Resisting Throwaway Culture. He is the father of four children, three of whom were adopted from the Philippines.

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Jul 09, 2024

How seminaries can serve the creative explosion in US Catholic education

The rapid growth of lay efforts to renew Catholic schools is evidence of U.S. Catholics' deep desire to pass their faith on to their children. Seminaries can lend support by reenvisioning their own role.

Hens in a metal cage at an egg farm. (Unsplash/Jo-Anne McArthur)

Dec 05, 2023

William Wilberforce would be scandalized by the pro-factory farming EATS Act

Christians who share the vision of Pope Francis and William Wilberforce should oppose the EATS Act as a diabolical end-run around laws that attempt to respect God's created order.

A priest blesses a dog outside a church during a prayer service for blessing of the animals in Rio de Janeiro Oct. 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of animals. (OSV News photo/Pilar Olivares, Reuters)

Oct 12, 2023

Did Pope Francis just add to the church's teaching on animals?

Laudate Deum is a move in the right direction. But we aren't there yet. Catholic concern for nonhuman animals, in our technocratic times, still has a long way to go.

May 06, 2021

God's plan for animals is a hot topic in theology that we can all understand

Commentary: Over the past decade in Christian theological circles, there's been an explosion of concern for nonhuman animals. Leading voices in animal ethics today — religious and secular — reject the idea that nonhuman animals are mere tools.

May 12, 2020

Nonhuman animals and the COVID-19 pandemic

It should come as no surprise to Pope Francis, the author of the encyclical "Laudato Si'," that at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic we find a relationship between human beings and the rest of God's creation that has gone terribly wrong.

Jul 09, 2019

Opponents of the pan-Amazon synod discard Catholic social doctrine

German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller's critiques of the working document for the synod of bishops, scheduled for this fall, is closer to heresy than anything in the instrumentum laboris, writes Charles Camosy.