Kevin Hughes
@coamhin.bsky.social
Theologian, Villanovan, Trying to live Franciscan in a broken world.
And the two are usually two processions (generation and spiration)
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
And the two are usually two processions (generation and spiration)
More or less! The four are paternity, filiation, spiration, and procession.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
More or less! The four are paternity, filiation, spiration, and procession.
That observation of Ricoeur’s stuck with me, too. It’s super important at every level —personal, familial, social, political, ecclesial. It may seem like a truism, until one starts to pay attention to the way (again at every level) we constantly replay the past as we try to cope with the present
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That observation of Ricoeur’s stuck with me, too. It’s super important at every level —personal, familial, social, political, ecclesial. It may seem like a truism, until one starts to pay attention to the way (again at every level) we constantly replay the past as we try to cope with the present
And I think this can be equally true in the pro life and pro choice arguments, I should say.
June 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And I think this can be equally true in the pro life and pro choice arguments, I should say.
Right. I’m not a moral theologian, so I’m sure there are people doing a better job of this, but public discourse around pregnancy and abortion seems to fail catastrophically at thinking about how unique a moral sphere it is… the interdependence is hard to analogize helpfully.
June 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right. I’m not a moral theologian, so I’m sure there are people doing a better job of this, but public discourse around pregnancy and abortion seems to fail catastrophically at thinking about how unique a moral sphere it is… the interdependence is hard to analogize helpfully.
I was discouraged by the responses. I mean, I think dignity and rights are related, of course, but we get into trouble when we make them convertible. It doesn’t make sense to me to say, “the dead person has a right to their organs”. Even if the bodily integrity of the dead might be important.
June 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I was discouraged by the responses. I mean, I think dignity and rights are related, of course, but we get into trouble when we make them convertible. It doesn’t make sense to me to say, “the dead person has a right to their organs”. Even if the bodily integrity of the dead might be important.
Yes I found the whole piece better than the excerpt would suggest, but still. She intends to point to the limits of the legal discourse itself in the excerpt, not exactly her own view. But it’s certainly not offering a robust alternative framing.
June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yes I found the whole piece better than the excerpt would suggest, but still. She intends to point to the limits of the legal discourse itself in the excerpt, not exactly her own view. But it’s certainly not offering a robust alternative framing.
Brothers in Arms. (West Wing)
June 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Brothers in Arms. (West Wing)
Those who militarize hope to provoke you. Don’t give them what they want, you are doing good work by just staying clear as best you can. Your voice and your presence speak volumes. It has to be enough.
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Those who militarize hope to provoke you. Don’t give them what they want, you are doing good work by just staying clear as best you can. Your voice and your presence speak volumes. It has to be enough.
And if this is a stretch for you, just try to follow others’ lead. Stay in the middle of the crowd. Follow directions, and keep your distance.
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And if this is a stretch for you, just try to follow others’ lead. Stay in the middle of the crowd. Follow directions, and keep your distance.
So protest for justice needs to find its root in love, or it will be goaded into returning hate for hate
June 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So protest for justice needs to find its root in love, or it will be goaded into returning hate for hate
Bring prayer ropes, rosaries, etc, not for display, but for grounding, continually rooting protest in the deeper truth of the “love that moves the sun and other stars.” As Cornel West has said, “Justice is what love looks like in public, just as tenderness is what love looks like in private.”
June 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bring prayer ropes, rosaries, etc, not for display, but for grounding, continually rooting protest in the deeper truth of the “love that moves the sun and other stars.” As Cornel West has said, “Justice is what love looks like in public, just as tenderness is what love looks like in private.”