[I]t bears emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church itself is complicit in ensuring Christianity’s disappearance in Europe, even more fundamentally…
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
Catholic Church
Is Europe Christian?—An introduction
Olivier Roy introduces his argument in Is Europe Christian?, that the real break between contemporary European culture and Christianity is…
Amid the waves of the sex abuse crisis
The fact remains that vulnerability and recognition operate on time binds that are both incommensurable and disproportionate to the ways…
Encounters on shifting ground
Part of the tragedy is that, although some of the underlying abuse took place decades ago, efforts at comprehensive accounts,…
Canon fodder
In this short reflection I will suggest that Viganò’s offhand remark shows us a deep truth about the legal culture…
Laws of gender: Parody and resistance in times of scandal
This essay begins with a tale of two cardinals. It’s not the story you’re expecting.
A matter of justice, not merely chastity
How will the encounter with the hard edges of American law reshape Catholic doctrine on sexual morality, which governs not…
The myth of secular law as savior
Like the good religion/bad religion dichotomy familiar to religious studies scholars, the good law/bad law dichotomy structures implicit judgments of…
Abuse crisis: Shifting boundaries between church and state
The meaning and the consequences of the abuse crisis will be far-reaching and it will take a long time to…
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…