Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a “common-sense” epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today’s…
Shifting drivers of change
Catholicism
Investigating American nuns
In Commonweal Magazine, Sister X, a religious sister for more than thirty years, writes anonymously about the current investigation of…
President Obama’s Catholic sensibility
President Barack Obama's May 17 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame deftly demonstrated the president's unique ability to…
Rehabilitating religious rights talk
In December, we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations General…
This is our moment, this is our time
For a long time after November 4, I found it hard to believe that Barack Obama had actually been elected…
Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good…
Marriage plots
Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the…
A Catholic Modernity?
Some readers of Sources of the Self, particularly its last few chapters, might have wondered how exactly Taylor’s indirect plea…
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the…