Political Theology: Catholic Spirituality and Drones

At every intersection of political examination of conscience, I come to the word peace and rummage in my mind for an spiritual reasoning that explains why I have never heard the word “drone” in any Catholic space or conversation.  I suppose because most Catholics,  sitting upon the words “political” and “reflection” come to the two […]

Mary Magdalen as a Sex Positive Therapist: What Catholic Women Can Learn from the Most Misunderstood Figure in the New Testament

One of the mystifying aspects of my studying the US mainstream feminist movement has been the “sex positive” feminists.  In my cursory reading of it (I nearly exclusively read authors on women of color feminism and poetry), my general understanding of it comes from the 1980s Sex Pos movement which came as a – somewhat […]

Weekly Spiritual Grub

Most recently, I was asked to give a very brief “deep thought of the week,” for my ministry. Weekly email blasts go out to subscribed parishioners and at the bottom of the email is a “spiritual deep thought of the week” by yours truly. I thought I’d begin posting them here as well. I’ve received […]