Les Misérables and Jansenism: Can His Sins Be Forgiven? Shall His Crimes Be...
One year ago on Christmas a miraculous event took place. On 25 December 2012, the movie adaptation of the English-language version of the musical Les Misérables was released. For someone who is as much...
View ArticleParisian Religious History: A Visit to Port-Royal
For the past two summers (2012 and 2013), I’ve been fortunate enough to spend July in Paris, doing research for my dissertation.1 I had been to Paris before, visiting for a week when I studied abroad...
View ArticleModern-Day Jansenism?
Back before I joined the Women in Theology blog, a theologian-blogger friend asked me if I wanted to write something about modern-day Jansenism in the Catholic Church. I told him that I wasn’t yet...
View Article“For it is not to be doubted that the duration of this life is but a moment;...
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a woman in theology, especially since I recently heard about the death of one of my favorite undergraduate theology professors, Fr. James...
View ArticleHeresyLetterGate and Teaching Authority in Theology
I was going to write a very different post this month. Then, HeresyLetterGate occurred and I’ve been following along via the various posts on social media. I’m not going to recap all the arguments and...
View ArticleModern-Day Jansenists… Online?
Two years ago, I was struck by this blog post about online responses to one of Lady Gaga’s online posts. In it, Lady Gaga had talked about appreciating a homily about the Eucharist when she was at...
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