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Archive: M. Cathleen Kaveny
Clashes of conscience
Catholic bishops and pro-choice and gay rights activists won't win minds and hearts of ordinary Americans holding food, shelter and medical care hostage to moral principle.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | December 1, 2009; 04:43 PM ET | Comments (9)
Being True to God's Call (Not Man's)
The increased prominence of women in public life and in church life in Western Christianity is due, in part, to women who rose to that task in the conviction that they were being true to God's call to them.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | October 24, 2008; 04:16 PM ET | Comments (10)
Canon Law and Jesus Christ
If we really believe that the Eucharist is the real presence of Christ, we cannot rule out the possibility that Christ himself was reaching out to grieving people like Sally Quinn at Tim Russert’s funeral mass, and that she responded to his invitation.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | July 10, 2008; 09:56 AM ET | Comments (28)
Greed is Not Good
Dante might say that we have two distinct set of challenges in the mortgage crisis and the oil crisis. We have people tempted to be spendthrifts, to buy a bigger house, to buy a bigger car, than they can afford. We have people tempted to be misers--or money lenders and oil tycoons willing to do anything to put more money in their accounts.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | May 29, 2008; 11:11 AM ET | Comments (11)
The Surprising Lessons of the Past
We can’t approach the question of marriage law today with the assumption that marriage is now what it has always been in either its religious context or its secular context.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | May 23, 2008; 01:40 PM ET | Comments (7)
