Theology

Article

A Wake-Up Call to Liberal Theologians

Academic theology needs the church as much as the church needs theology

By Massimo Faggioli

May 16, 2018

Theology

U.S. Catholicism

Higher Education

Vatican II

Article

Mission, Missteps & Renewal

Catholic University is in need of renewal, but the administration’s plan to address the budget crisis will only threaten the school’s national standing

By Julia G. Young

May 9, 2018

U.S. Catholicism

Higher Education

Theology

Article

Hold Out for Joy

Holiness should neither scare nor bore us

By The Editors

May 8, 2018

Feature

An Interview with Peter Cole

Poet and translator Peter Cole discusses the poetry of theology, translation and Jewishness, and poetry that makes the world more interesting

By Anthony Domestico

April 30, 2018

Books

Poetry

Theology

Jewish-Christian Relations

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

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

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

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

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

Article

Obsessed with Continuity

What an essay on the Mortara kidnapping confirms

By Massimo Faggioli

January 20, 2018

Jewish-Christian Relations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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