Catholicism
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Bonhoeffer’s Last Advent
One year before Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis on the morning of April 9, 1945,…
Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged…
Taking Aim at Francis
Details are still coming out about the arrest of four men who were allegedly plotting to attack…
New Norms for Marriage Nullity
I recently attended a conference in Rome, “La riforma operata dal m.p. ‘Mitis Iudex,’”sponsored by the Consociatio…
Synod 2015 Revisited
It’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet there is still no official translation…
Neoconservative Catholicism in America
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…
After Dinner, a Beheading
November 2015 will be remembered as the month in which the world woke up. The year began…
Mercy in a World Gone Mad
The day after the brutal terrorist attacks in France by ISIS, French President Hollande gave his country’s…
European Reconciliation
Currently, visitors to the Vatican Museums in Rome have the opportunity to visit an exhibition devoted to…
ECT at Twenty
From the introduction to Evangelicals and Catholics Together at Twenty: Vital Statements on Contested Topics (Brazos, 2015),…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
John Paul II’s “Beloved Krakow”
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based…
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
The Road to Nostra Aetate
Of all the documents of Vatican II, few have been more discussed and written about than Nostra…
Statting While Catholic
As a Catholic statistician, I tend to read any story headlined with “Surveys say Catholics . .…
