Catholic attitudes toward sex and marriage have shifted dramatically over the past fifty years. How should the church respond, pastorally and doctrinally, to this growing disconnect between official teaching and the practice of individual Catholics?

A somber conclusion arises from our common experience of life: there exist powers, at work in and through humans yet commanding a superhuman blind energy, that labor for the destruction of humans and of all human beauty and grace. Such powers cannot adequately be named by the language of social description; they require the language of myth. It is important to be able to speak of the Devil.

The bishops & Elizabeth Johnson

The great religious battle of our time is not the one being waged between believers and unbelievers. Yes, that's an important and certainly a noisy conflict. But more significant than that struggle is the clash occurring within religious traditions.

Bible readers, especially Americans, look for truth in all the wrong places.

A review of Garry Wills’s ’What Jesus Meant,’ ’What Paul Meant,’ and ’What the Gospels Meant’

Negotiating the authority of Scripture, tradition & experience

  "Suppose we indulge our fondest hopes. Let us imagine that Pope Benedict XVI turns out to be quite unlike what many expected, and that he embraces a spirit of theological openness and generosity. No longer would a respected and respectful editor of a Jesuit journal be removed for the sin of advocating fairness; no more would a leading theological ethicist be removed from a tenured position or a systematic theologian be quelled by the same threat." Luke Timothy Johnson on the role of the Catholic theologian.

  John Paul II, like Superman, tried to do everything. And in doing so, he may have harmed the church. Luke Timothy Johnson on JPII’s legacy.