“Let he who is without sin caste the first stone” (Gospel of John 8:7) Wait. Or should I say “Riddle me this, Batperson”? Batman — isn’t that problematic? Does that not presuppose toxic masculinity surrounding the persona of the Bat person — doesn’t that preclude others who are not male…

The Problem: From the publication of De Veritate by Edward Herbert to the publication of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, more than 200 years later, there is a veritable straight line. Whether or not Herbert understood the impact of his rejection of systematic theology and Scripture as the basis for understanding…

— 9/11 and a Woman I Never Knew Somewhere under the indefinite folds of blankets, pillows, sheets, and a tee shirt I had shed during a nightmare torn nyght, my cellphone shook and rattled and buzzed. Inhaling deep into the emptiness of my lungs I gasped for a first breath. …

“I’m a Libertarian. I believe we all have the right to choose the way we want to go to hell.” At first glance, there is something fundamentally right about that statement — I mean, isn’t that the American Way? Live and let live? Isn’t that what the American Dream is…

To me it has always been one of Shakespeare’s greatest lines — if you ever read Julius Caesar, you might know the line to which I am referring. Mark Anthony, at Caesar’s memorial service, tells the crowd that he has not come to condemn Brutus, because, after all, Brutus is…

“The Church is an organization of sinful men.” - Joseph Iannone, former Holy Cross Brother When I look back at my life, I can safely say that my faith began and ended the day I heard those words. Despite the fact that I was just a sophomore in high school…

Only once in my lifetime have I ever been where I am now: Confronted with the reality of social injustice in a country that is bereft of any sense of moral decency, consumed by consumption, lost in the selfishness of “whatever makes me feel good about myself is just fine…

There has been much talk over the last seven days about reclaiming the moral high ground and restoring, at the same time, the Shining City on the Hill, that, in theory at least, is a beacon for freedom and democracy to a world that lives largely oppressed. I have to…

As election day 2008 drew to a close and Barack Obama had been elected president, my son was elated. I was not. Not because I didn’t want Obama to become president, in fact I did. I even voted for him instead of against one of two candidates. “You know,” I…