Well, it isn’t the first time that Harrison Butker has missed wide right.
Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, News
Excommunication is not the church’s equivalent of capital punishment
Although the Catholics invented the practice of excommunication to deal with severe sins, other religious groups have also adopted it for their own purposes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Flannery O’Connor’s sacramental vision
Jessica Hooten Wilson builds ‘Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress’ around the previously unpublished manuscript pages of O’Connor’s third novel, which was never finished.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When my husband abused me, a priest told me to wait and pray. That was never enough.
The church’s respect for marriage should never supersede its respect for the lives and safety of the people who enter into that sacrament. It’s time for the church to do more to speak up for abused women.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Novelist Mary Beth Keane finds grace in the ‘achingly ordinary’
Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A lively journey through Catholic fiction
Michael O’Connell’s ‘Startling Figures’ asks what American Catholic writers have in common—and the answers are not always obvious.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Why we love the church, with Bishop Donald Hying
As Catholics, it can be tempting to focus on the church’s negatives: the scandals, the boring homilies, the lackluster music. This week, on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley are doing something a little different.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: St. Katharine Drexel’s complicated record on race
In ‘Katherine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision,’ the historian Margaret McGuinness has performed another valuable service to American Catholic history.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Bernardin’s ‘Consistent Ethic of Life’ still divides Catholics 40 years later
Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to overcome.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Lights, camera, Amen: the love-hate relationship between the Catholic Church and Hollywood
Should a Catholic Church ever be a movie set? From our most iconic movies to some regrettable music videos, it’s a question that has been asked many times and answered in different ways.