Theology

Hans Urs von Balthasar can help us understand the ongoing practical and spiritual crisis within the Catholic right.

… Europe sixty years after 1917: both in Western Europe and behind the Iron Curtain, it … approved and promulgated. From a sociological point of view, Vatican II ended a long time ago. From a historical and theological point of view, the picture is very different, …

Horror movies can unsettle us and stir us to think about the world—and about God, as Ryan Duns shows in 'Theology of Horror.'

As we journey back home, the People of God must cultivate the hearts of homemakers, too.

The worldview underlying capitalist economic thinking is one that Christians simply cannot accept.

Can a Catholic be a Hindu? Jesuit Francis X. Clooney has sought to learn from both traditions with real devotion.

Must Christian celibacy be reduced to misogyny or hatred of the body?

Pope Leo met the global Church at Catholic Theological Union.

Theologian David Tracy was absorbed by the sheer ineffability of God—and by the absolute need to speak of God nonetheless.

Francis was “of the people” in his understanding of theology: he drew on popular rituals and the stuff of daily life as theological sources.

Francis's critics are wrong to fear a return to the upheavals of the postconciliar period. In the Church, arguments are a sign of life.

Francis's papal teaching was dominated by a master contrast-image: between rigid spiritual elitism and Gospel humility.

Pope Francis’s whole life can be described as striving to live in accord with the beatitudes.

Pope Francis's longstanding devotion to and trust in Mary led him to choose the Basilica of Mary Major as his final resting place.

Pope Francis didn’t just change the course of Church history and politics—he also helped me find my way back to an institution I had sworn off.

Pope Francis thought of the Church as a polyhedron, comprising many faces that meet each other along sharp lines yet always maintain their individuality.

How can we continue to imagine eschatological glimpses of hope, particularly when the events of the Passion continue happening in this world?

While history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme. Today's traditionalism parallels the Jansenist crisis in early modern Catholicism.

The leaked Trump administration group chat exemplified how Christian leaders use empty religious gestures as window dressing for war-making.

During Lent, we focus on abstaining and fasting—but that practice is intended to make room for something else.

Francis's new encyclical, 'Dilexit nos,' joins religious devotion to social and political justice.

In her poetry, St. Teresa of Ávila insisted on using the vernacular to explain transcendent realities.

A father and son pair of biblical scholars insist that changing one’s mind about sexuality is legitimated by the way Scripture shows God changing his mind.

"Since 2008, my professional life owes more to American than Italian Catholicism."

"Christians ought to oppose idolatry of the state and the military by being an alternative to the politics of war."

Our increasingly disembodied forms of memorial and mourning sacrifice something essential: the sacredness of physical space.

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

Gay communities have been havens for expressions of love, selflessness, covenant, and care that were in danger of being lost in the modern world.

Timothy Morton, one of the most influential environmental philosophers of the past two decades, has found Jesus.

When every initiation stands contrary to my parents' idea of filial piety, my only choices feel like stay or go, belong or don’t.

Gary Dorrien remembers his tumultuous adventures in post-Kantian philosophy and democratic socialist organizing.

Have Catholic bishops, theologians, and laypeople forgotten how to speak to the public?

Theologian Richard Gaillardetz's final book wrestles with how to live with death approaching.

Spencer Reece's latest collection of poems combines moments of real theological profundity with moments of inanity.

‘Fiducia supplicans’ seems written to reinforce very stubborn ideas: that there is a proper place for liturgy and that married gay people do not belong there.

"Where, I wonder, will my generation of theologians seek vocational sustenance?"