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The Seamless Garment is basically common sense Catholic Social Teaching. It puts the human person at the center of things, instead of things such as possessions and ideologies at the center...
Once the sexual act is removed from this defining context, the “seamless garment” begins to unravel. Only a full embrace of Church teaching on the meaning of human sexuality, he concludes, can rehabilitate the seamless garment and provide a truly coherent Catholic life ethic.
If we take scissors to the seamless garment, snipping out the parts that don’t appeal to us or concern us—justice for the LGBTQ community, literacy for girls as well as boys across the globe, affordable housing for all, antisemitism—our claim to respect life quickly unravels.
Today, some bishops, including Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Bishop Gerald Kicanas, say the consistent-ethic or “seamless-garment” approach to how Catholics operate in the public square could be...
Fully embracing the Seamless Garment prevents one from being led astray by pundits and manipulated by political forces across the spectrum. What is the Seamless Garment, then? How can we properly understand it?
Since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin introduced the "seamless garment" approach to life issues 35 years ago, the notion has been both divisive and formative for the church, according to speakers at...
The “seamless garment” (Jn 19:23) has always been an appealing image. As a metaphor, however, this common way people talk about the consistent ethic is problematic. The image of the garment is tempting, because it helps to make the consistent ethic seem more concrete.