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Catholicism in Need of Critical Caretaking

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Scott Appleby
April 13, 2021January 27, 2024

So intent was the Vatican on “protecting the Church” that even the horrors of the Holocaust, not lost on Pope Pius XII, failed to scandalize Catholic diplomats and other officials into reconsidering the rights of religious minorities and championing religious freedom.

A Conservative Decoloniality?: On the Limitations of Irish Decolonization

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Maxwell Woods
December 15, 2020February 1, 2024

Yes, not every radical philosophy is decolonial. But, as decolonized Ireland demonstrates, not every decolonial philosophy is radical.

Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Aline Kalbian
August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.

Unmasking Neoliberalism’s Invisible Grip: Homo Economicus and the Person in Bioethics

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

M. Therese Lysaught
July 18, 2019July 30, 2019

The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.

Layering Patterns of Authority

Dairou Bouba, Tatiana Fouda, Cecelia Lynch and Nadine Machikou
November 27, 2018December 17, 2018

Any discussion of patterns and practices of authority within communities in Cameroon must take into account the relations of authority, intended or unintended, between these communities and outside actors, especially with the state, the humanitarian world of nongovernmental organizations, and with members of our research team.

Beyond ‘Hearsay’ Or: Hearing and Learning to Say ‘Assalamu Alaikum’

Elizabeth Boyle
November 15, 2018November 16, 2018

Growing up in New York City after September 11, 2001, the narratives about Islam that were shared with me my entire life were ones of extremism and terrorism. It became apparent that my perception of Muslims up until this point had all been hearsay.

“Faith-by-Birth”? Community and Religious Identity

Sydney Schlager
October 16, 2018

I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.

Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018January 24, 2024

How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?