2009-11-07T04:17:11Z Georgetown University scholars explore religion in the news. tag:newsweek.washingtonpost.com,2009:/onfaith/georgetown/628 Copyright (c) 2009, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2009-11-07T04:17:11Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/birth_control_and_the_human_ecology.html

Unorthodoxy By Patrick J. Deneen In a recent edition of Georgetown's student newspaper, the Hoya, a graduate student in my department voiced her shock and consternation that the university health plan does not cover birth control prescriptions. The online version of the article has generated heated commentary, with people on the respective sides - for or against Georgetown's policy, one that reflects respect toward the Catholic position on artificial birth control - largely (and typically)...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-11-04T18:08:30Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-04:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/love_the_alien_as_yourself.html

This Catholic's View By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Octavio Gonzalez, a graduate of Georgetown University, would be picking corn and raising a few cattle in El Teul de Gonzalez, Mexico, if his father had not illegally trekked across the hills at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Ysidro, California, in 1969. Mr. Gonzalez never planned to stay permanently in the U.S., but he wanted something better for his children after he married a woman who had...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-11-02T13:37:31Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-02:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/a_more_civil_discourse_idealistic_pragmatism.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall Political discourse these days seems more fitted to Halloween than All Saints Day. Angels and devils, witches and shamans. Rancid prose. We all wonder and worry at the nastiness that shows up in political campaign ads, the polarized news outlets, and beyond. Yet much as we yearn for civil discourse, we need to recognize that this strain of vitriol is, and has been, very much part of the American...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-10-31T14:52:32Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/john_browns_disobedience.html

JUST LAW AND RELIGION Michael Kessler 150 years ago--in October 1859--John Brown led a raid on a U.S. armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to gather arms and lead an army to fight slaveholders. Instead, he was quickly stopped and hanged for his lawless actions. Is he a hero, a martyr, or a criminal? Or is he all three at once? Whatever you judge, his legacy of violent resistance to slavery still raises questions...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Michael Kessler 2009-10-29T12:41:40Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-28:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/benedict_the_radical.html

UNORTHODOXY By Patrick J. Deneen Recent commentary on Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to Anglicans to enter the Catholic fold has predictably fallen into the well-worn rut of seeing his action through liberal/conservative lens. Our domestic battle lines have been so firmly drawn, with daily sorties probing for the opposition's weaknesses while heavy arms stand at ready for attack, that we are largely incapable of putting our heads above the ramparts to discern whether something else...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-10-27T16:28:14Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-27:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/who_should_be_welcomed_in_the_catholic_church.html

This Catholic's View By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Pope Benedict's latest initiative toward Anglicans who want to rejoin the Catholic Church has caused quite a stir. Although Archbishop Rowan Williams and other Anglican leaders have said that it will not hurt Anglican-Catholic relations, more liberal voices in the Anglican Church, especially in the U.S. and Britain, have seen it as a crass attack on a weakened Anglican communion....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-10-26T18:11:37Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-26:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/the_expanding_universe_of_development.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall As a development practitioner who also teaches about development, I have tended to take the term for granted. But it's far from simple to define. Universities, non-profit agencies, and churches call fund-raising people "development officers" and the word crops up with other meanings in virtually every discipline. But there's a pretty specific international development community built around the term. The label "development" is attached to a vast array of...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-10-23T18:18:34Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-23:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/pulling_the_veil_off_anonymous_comments.html

JUST LAW AND RELIGION By Michael Kessler Columnists and bloggers toil to put words and thoughts in good order. We deliver our pieces (often late!) to anxious editors with our name and reputation on the line. And then we watch helplessly while anonymous commenters hijack threads and launch screed upon hateful screed in every direction....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Michael Kessler 2009-10-23T12:39:47Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/a_run-off_presidential_election_in_afghanistan_taking_the_long_view.html

ISLAM AND THE WEST By Daniel Brumberg President Hamid Karzai's last minute agreement to hold a second round of presidential elections on November 7 could be nothing more than a cynical ploy. The notion that the international community can work with domestic monitors to effectively prepare for such elections in the next 16 days, and that this run-off will produce a credible victor, is questionable. Yet, even if motivated by a seemingly insatiable quest to...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Daniel Brumberg 2009-10-22T14:56:06Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/diversity_and_indifference.html

UNORTHODOXY by Patrick J. Deneen Earlier this month, Georgetown's student newspaper, the Hoya, published an editorial excoriating The Catholic University of America for refusing to recognize CUAllies, that university's LGBTQ student group, as a student organization. The editorial stated that "Catholic identity must, understandably, be affirmed at a Catholic institution -- but it is also important to be sensitive to changing social dynamics." For this reason, the editors' called for CUA to follow Georgetown's lead...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-10-21T20:46:24Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-20:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/new_catholic_procedures_for_anglicans_could_revolutionize_church.html

THIS CATHOLIC'S VIEW By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. The new Vatican structures for dealing with Anglicans who want to join the Catholic Church may have significant and unforeseen consequences. They may in fact provide the Catholic Church with a steady supply of married priests. Some critics see the new procedures as a blow to relations between Catholics and Anglicans, but leaders from both churches deny this. Cardinal William Levada said that the Catholic Church is...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-10-19T13:36:53Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-19:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/food_and_faith.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall On October 16, as millions of people were riveted to video of a runaway balloon thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy named Falcon, a statistic was released on a problem that affects millions of children around the world: hunger. A billion people today are chronically hungry or malnourished, more than ever before in human history. Bloomberg News made the story its "chart of the day". Comedian Sarah Silverman...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-10-15T19:20:30Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-15:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/catholic_bishops_advice_on_afghanistan.html

THIS CATHOLIC'S VIEW By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. As President Obama ponders U.S. goals, strategy and tactics in Afghanistan, the U.S. Catholic bishops have offered him the perspective of Catholic teaching and experience in an October 7 letter to his national security adviser, General James L. Jones. While acknowledging that they are not military experts, the letter from Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, chair of the bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, presents analysis and...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-10-14T18:57:56Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-14:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/sex_lies_and_hypocrisy.html

UNORTHODOXY By Patrick J. Deneen Of late there has been a bonanza of high-profile sexual scandals. At least two of these have featured visible conservatives caught in adulterous relationships - S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford and Nevada Sen. John Ensign. And two have been celebrities whose assignations raise questions of legality - Roman Polanski, who is charged with having sex with a minor, and David Letterman, whose relationships with subordinates have raised questions whether these could...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-10-13T13:24:44Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-13:/onfaith/georgetown2009/10/finding_community_in_diversity.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall Last Friday evening, in the quiet sanctuary of an old Catholic church in Brooklyn, a group gathered to talk about a community that works globally for peace and social justice, the Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio. To understand this group, you have to explore the interwoven notions that they see as their special mark: prayer, friendship, and community. Earlier that week, I had a conversation with Homa Sabet Tavangar about...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall