Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching brings together essays that focus broadly on issues of conscience encountered in the educational field. The essays are uneven but important.
Distinctly Catholic: Despite the U.S. bishops' absolutism, nondiscrimination proposals like the Equality Act, if amended to remove restrictions on religious freedom, represent no threat to religion or the common good.
Distinctly Catholic: Religious exercise in Minnesota is not threatened by a Democratic governor but by a nonpartisan virus. And the bishops there need a reminder about what the church actually teaches about religious liberty.
In the midst of a global pandemic, the presumption that clerics will somehow figure a way to safely conduct public services and distribute the Eucharist is delusional.
U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke has resigned from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, saying it has become "more and more identified with the political program" of Steve Bannon.
Full recognition of religious freedom must include recognition of the right of believers to conscientiously object to participating in activities that violate their religious beliefs and values, said the International Theological Commission.
Distinctly Catholic: Pope Francis' insight, that there is a kind of ecclesiological approach that wants Jesus kept in a box, is lost on the drafters of the recent "filial correction."
