Meghan Clark

Scholars Phyllis Zagano, Meghan Clark and George Demacopoulos spoke on a panel in New York on a topic also raised at the ongoing synod for the Amazon: the female diaconate.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Abuse at Chicago Public Schools; billionaires endorse wealth tax; beautiful essay takes us to Paris and El Paso.

Political news and commentary roundup: Tarps serve as roofs, 18 months later; Theresa May's career ends; two thoughtful articles on the abortion issue, and one of the dumbest.

Theologians are seeing the urgency of doing public theology, a term coined by Lutheran theologian Martin Marty in the 1970s. But given the polarized political sphere, especially on social media, plus equally destabilizing controversies within the church, not to mention a lack of support from within academia, they are facing challenges in bringing their academic expertise into the public square.

Distinctly Catholic: Inside Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty's The Problem of Wealth: A Christian Response to a Culture of Affluence, there is a great book trying to get out. 

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Millennial calls family separation policy 'political violence'; Agreement on objections to Arroyo; Surprising origin for Nazi analogy

Now that I've read "Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones," I can't recommend it to anyone. It is not that I have major disagreements with its conclusions. It is simply horribly written.

The organizers of a 2017 conference of bishops and theologians to examine how Pope Francis' family life exhortation could be applied at the local level have put together a volume collecting the participants' discussions.