#occupy – Google News- Occupying Bookstores: Slow economy prompts wave of liberal books - Washington Post
- Occupy fairy free to glide - New York Daily News
- An Occupy Wall Street-eyed Review of 'The Avengers' Movie and the Future of Movies - Huffington Post (blog)
- Occupy to camp out in Providence for Netroots - Boston.com
- Bill O'Reilly: Who is behind the Occupy Wall Street Movement? - Fox News
- Stand up and occupy your country - The Seattle Times
- No vote on Occupy Oakland weapons ban - Sacramento Bee
- NEW ON DISC: Occupy fundraiser, Caltrop - Columbus Other Paper
- Occupy Chicago protests Boeing and President Obama - Washington Times
- Heartland Institute Responds to Occupy Protests of Climate Conference - Living Green Magazine
- Occupy Boston
- Occupy Wall Street
- An Occupy Wall Street-eyed Review of 'The Avengers' Movie and the Future of Movies - Huffington Post (blog)
- Bill O'Reilly: Who is behind the Occupy Wall Street Movement? - Fox News
- Occupy fairy free to glide - New York Daily News
- Slow economy prompts wave of liberal books - BusinessWeek
- OWS protester avoids jail after missed court appearance - New York Post
- Occupy Wall Street May Day protests start slow in NYC - New York Daily News
Labor and Work in Catholic Social Teaching and the Occupy Movement (CST & OWS, PT 4)
A guest reflection by Fr. Thomas Massaro SJ, Professor of Moral Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Pope John Paul II began his 1981 encyclical letter Laborem Exercens(On Human Work) with the stunning claim that “work as a human issue is at the very center of the ‘social question.’” This pope who … Read more
OWS and Subsidiarity and Participation (CST & OWS, PT 3)
By MT Dávila The Role of Government in CST Perhaps one of the least understood concepts or principles of Catholic social thought is the principle of subsidiarity. This word encompasses the presence in CST of considerations on the proper role of government, vis a vis the potential for extreme intrusion of government into the life … Read more
Occupation, Compassion, and Justice: Part 2 of 2
As mentioned in Part 1 of this article, there is still one major question left to answer. It is in many ways the most difficult of the three posed, as it calls into question the very nature of mental dualisms which we seem unable to escape. Should We Privilege Prophetic “Justice” Language Over Universal Compassion? … Read more
OWS and the Preferential Option for the Poor (CST & OWS, PT2)
By MT Dávila The Preferential Option for the Poor in Catholic Social Teaching (briefly!) The poor have always been of particular or special concern for Christians. The Hebrew Bible includes injunctions to care for and be just with the widow, the orphan, and the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:17-19, Isaiah 1: 23, and Ezekiel 22: 7) as … Read more
Occupation, Compassion, and Justice: Part 1 of 2
My advisor and mentor (whether he wants that title or not, too bad!) Paul Knitter often tells a story of working with a multi-faith group in Chiapas, Mexico, which was comprised of Christian social activists and Buddhists. In the process of drafting a document that called for a cessation of violence, the group got stuck … Read more
Human Dignity and the Occupy Movement (CST & OWS, pt 1)
by MT Dávila The ability of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) to respond clearly to critical moments in history and offer words of prophetic hope and imagination to address basic threats to life in society hinges on the central principle of the inviolable dignity of every human being. The comprehensive scope of this principle includes the … Read more
Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the Occupy Movement (OWS): a series of reflections on basic principles of CST in light of the concerns and issues central to the OWS movement
Introduction – for just such a time as this by MT Dávila The social teaching of the Christian churches represents efforts by diverse church authorities to engage the basic principles of Christian doctrine – love of neighbor, gratuitous love, reconciliation, salvation and liberation from sin, prophetic witness, etc. – with contemporary concerns affecting the human … Read more
Occupy Nonviolently: Opening remarks to a conversation between James Lawson and Harvey Cox
In the early twentieth century, a great theologian made a famous claim: theology’s task is to answer the questions of the age. That is, our world poses certain questions. Our experience demands attention. The theological task, Paul Tillich taught, is to engage matters of ultimate concern (to use his language) as the ultimate appears in … Read more
The Vatican Note on Financial Reform
On Monday, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace published a “Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority” (official version only in Italian so far; I am referencing the unofficial English translation at Radio Vaticana). Although the Note was almost certainly not in response … Read more
Occupy Wall Street: On a Theological Pre-Occupation by Catherine Keller
Mysterious, isn’t it—at just about the point when the last hopes for the Obama administration were collapsing, a new ground for hope arises. The chance that this presidency might somehow, despite the impossible obstructions of hypercapitalism, turn the tide of economic, ecological and military destruction was, by the end of the summer, swallowed by the … Read more
A Day of Reckoning
I have been thinking lately about theology as being like a reckoning. “I reckon it’s gonna rain” is not the kind of statement you hear on Wall Street. This gentler kind of anticipatory language would never work for someone trying to predict markets. Statements like this are common parlance in many parts of the Midland … Read more
Unsaying Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street movement brings theology, or at least us who do theology, back to certain beginnings. I don’t mean by this authoritarian arguments that seek to legitimize the role of religion in the movement (i.e. Jesus would occupy, therefore so should we Christians). Rather, I mean that the movement brings many of us … Read more
Location Matters? – A Prompt
Was Thomas Aquinas’ confinement in the castle of S. Giovanni important to his theological learning and subsequent teaching?Did Calvin need Geneva to write in the way that he wrote? Would Schleiermacher have written the speeches without the salons? Would Tillich have written his Systematic Theology without his necessitated move from Germany to New York? How … Read more
A Modern Theologian – Verse and Prose
The role of the modern theologian is not to give final answers but to question, especially in ways that enable a more just and livable life for us all. The theologian no longer speaks with the authority or power of the institutional church or academy; she speaks from within the people. The gathered community as … Read more
Theologian as Witness to Dispossession
“We need to be present to the people in the Occupy camps and marches.” The theologians who gathered for Saturday’s Boston meeting voiced this charge repeatedly. We easily agreed on this basic obligation as members of the Occupy movement, but I left our gathering wondering about a theologian’s obligation to offer presence to the movement. … Read more
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