Article South of the South Pole There is a basic metaphysical concern that underlies Hawking’s questions: Why does the universe exist? By Santiago Ramos April 24, 2018 Secularism and Modernity Theology Evolution
Article Lost in Transition For many Catholics, Benedict, not Francis, remains the real guarantor of orthodoxy By Massimo Faggioli April 3, 2018 Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis Theology Media
Article Sign Me Up How can we recover a robust sense of the fifty days of Easter? By Rita Ferrone April 2, 2018 Liturgy Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article The Virtue of Original Sin Liberalism Extreme optimism about human nature is not, in fact, central to the liberal creed By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 1, 2018 Domestic Affairs War and Peace Theology Columnists
Article Living in the Middle In both Joseph and Holy Saturday, we are granted images of what our lives are like By B. D. McClay March 21, 2018 Theology Spirituality
Article Ecumenical Generosity There remains something really distinctive and moving about the approach to the theology George Lindbeck represented By Karen Kilby March 20, 2018 Theology Ecumenism Higher Education
Article Stephen Hawking & the Mind of God Watching the plan for creation take shape in Hawking's mind may be as close as many of us come to participating in God's thoughts By Chet Raymo March 14, 2018 Theology
Article No Compromises In his translation of the New Testament, David Bentley Hart delights in challenging convention and proposing novel terms By Luke Timothy Johnson March 7, 2018 Books Theology
Article Canon Fodder E. Christian Brugger argues that the Council of Trent (1545–1563) taught unequivocally that marriage is indissoluble. Is that true? By Thomas Noble March 5, 2018 Theology Books
Article A Life, Not a Grammar What would the ideal introduction to Catholicism look like? By Paul J. Griffiths March 1, 2018 Theology Book Essay U.S. Catholicism
Feature ‘Cast a Cold Eye’ Christianity may debunk death, but it also regards it as an abomination. What do we do with it? By Terry Eagleton February 17, 2018 Death and Dying Theology Spirituality
Article The Habit of Seeing How Flannery O’Connor absorbed her extensive reading in modern Catholic philosophy and theology into a profound and personal religious vision By Paul Lakeland February 8, 2018 Books U.S. Catholicism Theology
Article The Conflict Continues Where does the real conflict between faith and science remain? By John W. Farrell February 7, 2018 Books Environment Theology Evolution
Article Teilhard’s Gamble Teilhard is a genius, a unique and providential combination of the scientist and the mystic By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Evolution From the Archives Spirituality Theology
Article The ‘Honest to God’ Debate Thomas Merton takes issue with Anglican Bishop J. A. T. Robinson’s book that argues that the Christian image has become inadequate in the modern world By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Theology Secularism and Modernity Spirituality From the Archives
Feature Active & Contemplative Orders Is there a paradox between the active and contemplative lives? By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality Religious Life Theology From the Archives
Article Obsessed with Continuity What an essay on the Mortara kidnapping confirms By Massimo Faggioli January 20, 2018 Jewish-Christian Relations Vatican II Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Theology
Article Don’t Over-Spiritualize ‘Temptation’ When we pray to be spared temptation, we’re asking for something very practical By Nicholas Frankovich January 17, 2018 Pope Francis Spirituality Theology Liturgy
Article ‘Be Such as God Made You’ Rethinking the spirituality of body image with some help from the ancient church By Amanda C. Knight January 11, 2018 Spirituality Theology Women in the Church The Last Word
Article Liturgies of Loss Rowan Williams argues that the “tragic imagination” is a moral imagination By Steven Knepper January 8, 2018 Books Theology
Article Lead Us Not into Temptation? Francis isn’t the first to question a key phrase of the Lord’s Prayer By Charles McNamara January 1, 2018 Pope Francis Theology Liturgy
Article Staff Pick: ‘Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic’ A sweeping biography of an overlooked figure By Dominic Preziosi December 27, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Theology
Article A Burnt-Out Case The spiritual costs of the way we work By Jonathan Malesic December 14, 2017 Spirituality Theology
Feature Wonders Never Cease How the modern period arose and how it has become another era, and in need of another name By Marilynne Robinson December 11, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Theology Spirituality
Article Religion Booknotes Books that speak directly to believers about the experience of faith By Luke Timothy Johnson November 28, 2017 Theology Books Spirituality
Article Nightmare Vision Darren Aronofsky’s film ‘mother!’ depicts how easily the Christian narrative can be redeployed to new and destabilizing uses By Travis LaCouter November 28, 2017 Movies Environment Theology
Article The Böckenförde Paradox Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work bridges some of the current divisions in our church and our politics By Michael J. Hollerich November 27, 2017 Ethics Theology
Feature Intelligible Mysteries Modern artists and modern theologians had a lot to say to one another By Anthony Domestico November 10, 2017 Poetry Theology Books
Article When Indissoluble Means Dissoluble Perhaps the plain meaning of Christ’s words about marriage is not by itself enough to understand the Church’s fairly complex teaching on the subject By Matthew Boudway October 26, 2017 Theology Sexuality
Article Those Pesky Privileges Why we should stop pretending that the pastoral exceptions suggested by ‘Amoris laetitia’ are an unprecedented departure from the Church’s teaching By Matthew Boudway October 20, 2017 Theology Pope Francis
Article Letting ‘Amoris laetitia’ Be Heard A gathering in Boston gave a sense of what Pope Francis’s vision of the church in ‘Amoris laetitia’ might actually look like By Matthew Sitman October 16, 2017 Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Theology
Feature Can the Churches Be Reunited? At this time of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, advancing Christian unity with the Protestants would lie in the Orthodox direction By George Hunsinger October 15, 2017 Ecumenism Theology
Article Vietnam & a Century of Catholic Teaching on War and Peace How the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary helps us think about development of doctrine By Massimo Faggioli September 28, 2017 War and Peace Pope Francis Theology Vatican II Media Television
Article Ancient Identities I can’t read the Epistles without wanting to know a lot more—yet feeling stuck. Paula Fredriksen’s book on Apostle Paul’s writings helps By Sarah Ruden September 28, 2017 Theology
Article The Novels Where God Is Present Does the Catholic novel even truly exist? A lifetime of avid reading assures me that it does By Fr. Robert Lauder September 20, 2017 Books Theology
Article A Pope with ‘Both Feet in History’ What the latest long interview really reveals about Francis By Massimo Faggioli September 14, 2017 Pope Francis Pope Benedict XVI Theology Poverty Vatican II
Article The Church They Don’t Like May Be Their Own Why is a vocal subset of converts being so critical? By Massimo Faggioli August 8, 2017 Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Theology
Article Pathos, Bathos, and Euthanasia The dangers of not thinking critically about a complicated moral argument By Gilbert Meilaender June 30, 2017 Death and Dying Ethics Bioethics Theology
Article What the European Academy of Religion Says about Religion ... and what it might also say about the future of Europe By Massimo Faggioli June 28, 2017 Theology Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Pope John Paul II Pope Benedict XVI
Article Another U.S. Diocese Adopts the ‘Restored Order’ Rather than striving to structure programs that will lead to confirmation, catechetical efforts should lead toward Eucharistic participation By Rita Ferrone June 27, 2017 Theology Web Exclusive
Article The Other Guy There is a certain malaise in the Catholic Church when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We do not quite know what to say. By Jerry Ryan June 21, 2017 Spirituality Theology
Article How Are New Ecclesial Movements Changing the Church? The possibility of incardination within priestly fraternities could signal a fundamental shift By Massimo Faggioli June 8, 2017 Vatican II Pope Francis Theology
Article LGBT Catholics & the Francis Papacy How the church can do a better job reaching out to and learning from gay Catholics By John Gehring May 22, 2017 Sexuality Bishops Social Justice Theology Pope Francis
Article Not a Novelty The Eastern Orthodox case for deaconesses By Carrie Frederick Frost May 18, 2017 Women in the Church Theology
Article Religion Booknotes: Summer 2017 Luke Timothy Johnson reviews books on (perhaps) the world's oldest church, evolution and the Bible, the fear of God, and the relations between different monotheisms By Luke Timothy Johnson May 18, 2017 Books Theology Ecumenism
Article Continental Drift The “Catholic Pangea” is breaking up By Massimo Faggioli May 11, 2017 Pope Francis Pope Benedict XVI Pope John Paul II Bishops Donald Trump Theology
Article Is the Pope ‘Anti-Jewish’? No, but here’s why his critics think so By Philip A. Cunningham May 8, 2017 Pope Francis Jewish-Christian Relations Theology Ecumenism
Article The Catholic Vision Hiring for mission is about more than ‘counting Catholics’ By Joshua Hochschild May 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Higher Education Social Justice Theology
Article More than Animals Roger Scruton maintains that animality is but one aspect of our human nature By Gary Gutting May 8, 2017 Books Secularism and Modernity Theology
Article Real & Unimaginable Only a minority of Christians believe in a physical resurrection, be it Christ’s or ours. But there's no getting away from the claim By Jerry Ryan April 24, 2017 Spirituality Theology The Last Word
