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January 16, 2012
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October 25, 2011
Eugene McCarraher – “The Mystical Body of Business: Why Corporations Have the Rights of Persons”
Watch this excellent lecture by Villanova professor Eugene McCarraher on corporate personhood.
October 3, 2011
Visions of Hope: Emerging Theologians Envision the Future of the Church
This conference taking place at Boston College in March 2012 looks promising:
Over a decade into the 21st century, the human community faces an increasingly complex social and historical context. While the phenomenon of globalization and its effects have engendered hope in bringing people and cultures together in many profound ways, new inequalities, conflicts, and sorrows are dividing people and communities worldwide. Technology, culture, and communities are changing and developing at a pace never before seen in human history.
Such complexities and changes have deeply impacted the Catholic Church and other faith communities around the world both positively and negatively. In the midst of these external dynamics, the Catholic Church has also faced a number of internal challenges and divisions in the five decades since the Second Vatican Council. Despite the many positive and uplifting moments, theological insights, and movements that have taken emerged in the church since the Second Vatican Council opened fifty years ago, the ecclesial community faces a number of unresolved issues, including:
In light of these complex issues and realties, what will the future of the Church look like? Emerging theologians and young church leaders (broadly, those under 40) are in a unique position to offer hopeful visions which might help the Catholic community address internal and external questions. The fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council offers an important moment to take stock of the present ecclesial situation and to look ahead with hope to the future.
In an effort to empower and listen to the voices of some emerging theologians and leaders, theology graduate students at Boston College (BC), together with the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA-Pax Romana) and other partners at BC plan to organize an international colloquium in March, 2012 on the theme of Visions of Hope: Emerging Theologians Envision the Future of the Church. The three-day gathering will be guided by, five subthemes:
View the call for papers here.
September 28, 2011
A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty
I was happy to sign on to this statement today originally signed by about 150 Catholic theologians calling for an end to the death penalty. Please spread the word. Here is an excerpt:
Therefore, in concert with our recent popes and bishops, we oppose the death penalty, whether a person on death row is guilty or innocent, on both theological and practical grounds. While we especially deplore and lament the killing of Troy Davis, we also decry the death sentences of the more than 3,200 inmates on death row and the 1,268 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. We urge our nation to abolish capital punishment, and we also implore our churches to work unwaveringly to end it as well as all other threats to human life and dignity.– A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty