Father Bourgeois has frequently articulated the notion that violence—whether physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or structural—is always “wrong and immoral.”
Surrounded by those she had been taught to “despise,” she began to question these prejudices that had been instilled through the institutional Church and seek out the human rights model laid out in the Gospel….
The US Conference of Bishops gets into the business of rating Hollywood; unfortunately it appears that racism is excusable, so long as the language is clean and the body covered.
A humble patriot understands that the first task toward self-preservation is critical self-examination, while unhealthy patriotism retreats into the “us against them“ stance…
How can largely Catholic countries manage to pass legislation despite the cries of the institutional Church while Catholic-minority nations like the US often hew close to the Church line?
