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Category: Catholic Re-Visions

“Ite Missa Est”: How can the Altar Alter Attitudes and Actions?

Worship, with its “meaning-laden symbols, repeating rituals, sacred texts, shared song, prescribed prayers, re-enacted narratives,” has a way of moving the worshiper away from what is proscribed to what is prescribed; in effect, from the vices of corruption to the virtues that promote the common good.

La Santa Muerte and the Characteristic Damage of Canonization

When we perceive La Santa Muerte devotees as people operating outside of the rules instead of people seeking God in the messiness of a broken world, we miss the fundamentally holy desires that operate alongside the damaged ones in these practices.

Ora et Labora: Ritualizations of Worship and Justice

In practice, their liturgies demonstrated a complex interweaving of different social justice commitments throughout the liturgy, while simultaneously, the community described only limited connections between their liturgy and the social issues they addressed as a community.

Centering Active Nonviolence in Catholic Social Teaching – Webinar Event, August 11, 12-1pm eastern

Join recent Catholic Re-Visions contributors as they engage the relationship between nonviolence and Catholic social teaching in these times.

Priesthood, Desires, and Theopolitics: A Conversation with Maya Mayblin

Priests, in order to become mayors, had to be viewed as lovers. So, the mayor-priest is a ‘lover’ in multiple senses. He has to embody God’s love. He has to perform paternal love. He has to signal to society that he is also, very likely – albeit in secret – to be a good sexual lover as well.

Catholic Re-Visions Remembers Francis

Two authors remember Pope Francis’s thoughts, words, and actions.

Active Nonviolence and Legitimate Defense?

The language of ‘right to defense’ has been consistently deployed to legitimate Israel’s general military strategy and ongoing U.S. provision of weapons as its policy. Meanwhile, Pope Francis consistently calls for an end to the mass atrocity of war… Something drastically needs to change.

Political Science Contributions to Centering Nonviolence

It turns out that when weighing warfare’s costs, benefits, and odds of success, its overall record is surprisingly weak.

From Teaching My Class to Catholic Social Teaching: Reflections on Extending the Reach of Nonviolence

It is imperative to respect the claims of conscience behind the pacifist convictions often associated with the rejection of the modern state. But if Catholic social teaching is going to incorporate nonviolence more fully, it also must develop the connection between nonviolence and modern politics.

Some Resources from the Margins to Center Nonviolence in Catholic Social Teaching

The notion of quality of life, an extended conception of common good, and the solidarity with the victims can move nonviolence from the margins of Catholic Social Teaching to its center.

The Practice of Nonviolence and Catholic Social Teaching: Exploring the Intrinsic Link

The virtues and practices include confronting the issue rather than the person, practicing forgiveness, tolerance, and reconciliation, embracing the enemy as a child of God, and protecting human dignity and the common good. It explores how the combination of CST and nonviolence can address human actions that sustain marginalization, racism, conflicts, oppression, domination, and diverse forms of social exclusion.