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Joseph S. Flipper is Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton. He is the author of Between Apocalypse and Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac.
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is seen here at the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore on Nov. 16, 2021. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Joseph S. Flipper
The temptation is to fight the ghosts of Modernism by denigrating those working for social justice and “elites” as anti-religious co-conspirators. But this would be a disservice to the truth and to the church.
A line of police officers faces a woman participating in a protest on May 29 in Louisville, Ky., of the killing of Breonna Taylor by police in March. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Joseph S. Flipper
The police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville was another example of how geographic and racial partitions deny human rights to certain American citizens, writes Joseph S. Flipper of Bellarmine University.