Michelle Nickerson’s Spiritual Criminals demonstrates the ongoing relevance of many of the book’s topics to contemporary Catholicism. Some of the following have been added or highlighted by me, but they include: white privilege, church-state relations, Catholic Social Teachings, gender troubles (feminism, masculinity), pro-life politics, abortion, patriotism, individual conscience, the acceptable limits of public activism/protest, and more. The last one I want to propose for you is the orthodox-unorthodox dialectic in Catholicism. What are the questions, answers, and contradictions around both themes for Catholics? How are orthodox-unorthodox problems transcended? Which theses and antitheses remain in place? How does this all matter Read more