Today’s Politics Bear Strange Resemblance To The 1850s (Martin Katchen)
Observers looking for historic parallels between our time and bygone eras in United States history may have to go all the way back to the 1850s. In that decade the dominant party (which was the...
View ArticlePTT Dispatches – Reflections On Trump, America, And “Eurocentrism” From The...
I doubt that anyone outside the Netherlands has ever heard of the island of Terschelling. That’s probably because only Dutch, present company excluded, ever go there. You know that because everywhere...
View ArticleDreaming Beyond A Tale of Two Relationships – The Relationship of the...
This is the first post in our Symposium on Catholic Political Theology and the 2016 Elections. Future posts will appear on Fridays in the following weeks. In his book The Audacity of Hope, President...
View ArticleLevinasian Responsibility To The Other Should “Trump” All Identity Politics...
Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Stephen Bannon as chief White House strategist and senior counsel to the POTUS has furthered criticism of his election and brought additional attention to the...
View ArticleUndocumented Immigrants and the Bible: A Reply to Gehring and Hoffmeier...
We are in the closing days of National Migration Week (Jan. 8-14), the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual period focused on reflecting on the lives of immigrants and refugees. This...
View ArticleWhom The Executive Order Could Leave Behind (Kieryn Wurts)
Walking down a path on a late morning in the Calais Jungle (the refugee camp in France, destroyed last summer by authorities, where many seeking admission to the United Kingdom were waiting to get...
View ArticleTrump Executive Order Highlights American Muslim Communities’ Coming of Age...
Its been a rocky ride for many people since Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. Despite the many headline-making tweets and controversial cabinet nominations, it...
View ArticleSigns of Hope for Labor Day (Matthew A. Shadle)
As Labor Day approaches this weekend, there are small signs of hope for the resurgence of the labor movement in the United States. A recent Gallup poll showed that support for labor unions among...
View ArticleFaith in Public Life: A Response to Dianne Feinstein and Steve Bannon...
During a Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said to Barrett, a practicing Catholic,...
View ArticleWhom The Executive Order Could Leave Behind (Kieryn Wurts)
Walking down a path on a late morning in the Calais Jungle (the refugee camp in France, destroyed last summer by authorities, where many seeking admission to the United Kingdom were waiting to get...
View ArticleTrump Executive Order Highlights American Muslim Communities’ Coming of Age...
Its been a rocky ride for many people since Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. Despite the many headline-making tweets and controversial cabinet nominations, it...
View ArticleSigns of Hope for Labor Day (Matthew A. Shadle)
As Labor Day approaches this weekend, there are small signs of hope for the resurgence of the labor movement in the United States. A recent Gallup poll showed that support for labor unions among...
View ArticleFaith in Public Life: A Response to Dianne Feinstein and Steve Bannon...
During a Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said to Barrett, a practicing Catholic,...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Comprehensive Immigration Reform? (Matthew A. Shadle)
Last September, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program begun by President Barack Obama in 2012, which prevented individuals...
View ArticleThe Trump White House Immigration Proposal is Contrary to the Common Good
On Thursday, the Trump White House made public its proposal for an immigration deal. The proposal has four main components. First, the plan would provide legal status, and eventually citizenship, not...
View ArticlePeeing in Public is Never a Crime
The necessary elimination of fluids from the body shouldn’t be the pretext for the unnecessary elimination of immigrants from the body politic. Source
View ArticleThe Common Good in a World Uprooted
The concept of the common good, so central to Catholic social ethics, provides a hopeful way to integrate these concerns for both structural factors and agency into an ethical framework for thinking...
View ArticlePolitical Theology, Volume 19, Issue 3, May 2018 is now available
Vincent Lloyd on James Cone, Ilsup Ahn on Labor, Immigration and Forgiveness, Silas Morgan on Ideology and liberation, and so much more. Source
View ArticleIn the Belly of the Colony
Is this nation ultimately facing a precipice of desoulation? Or could this also be the dark abyss out of which to ensoul itself rather than to continue erecting the towers of indignity that proudly...
View ArticleFrom Social Work to Social Change
It is through our own wounds that we're called into the work of transformation. Source
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