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      In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing
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Daniel C. Maguire

Daniel C. Maguire is a professor of ethics at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution, and past president of The Society of Christian Ethics. He is the author or editor of 13 books and some 200 articles and president of The Religious Consultation On Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics, an international collegium of 80 scholars from all the world religions. His most recent book is Christianity Without God: Moving Beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative (SUNY, 2014).

(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 28, 2017

The God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion’s Fatal Flaw

By Daniel C. Maguire

The “world religions” suffer from their provenance. They are, one and all, children of the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawJanuary 22, 2017

The Tyranny of Politeness

By Daniel C. Maguire

Despots require and usually get an excess of politeness. But in the face of gross evil and injustice too much politeness is servile, ignoble, and base.

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(A)theologiesMarch 20, 2012

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

In 2002, Catholic theologian Christine Gudorf predicted that “within a generation or two,” Catholic hierarchical teaching will change to encourage contraception in marriage and to allow some abortions.

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Guest BloggersNovember 1, 2011

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

Meet your new neighbors, the Fertilized-Egg-Persons…

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Guest BloggersOctober 25, 2011

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

Jesus didn’t say “do not contracept!” he said, if you love justice and peace as I do, if you are good news to the poor as I am, “then all will know that you are my disciples.” 

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Guest BloggersJuly 14, 2011

The Gospel According to
Paul Ryan

By Daniel C. Maguire

His mission is to further the corruption of conservatism.

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