Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Phone Not Ringing
The cumuli reach to the noontime moon.Nuthatch and warbler, starling and cowbird,Fall like the famished on seed…
The Annunciation I
Whispers of love were in the springtime airas I lay dreaming of our first full kissbeside the…
Letters
Lay Leadership Citing mass disenfranchisement in a “papal-episcopal oligarchy,” Bronwen McShea (“Bishops Unbound,” January) argues for institutional…
The Future of News
For about a century, American journalism had a paradigm that positioned the industry as essential to liberal…
Julien Green’s Vatican II
Several years ago, I came across some odd volumes of the journal of Julien Green in a…
The Civility Trap
Lots of folks are calling for civility these days, an understandable response to a shrill and polarized…
Methodist Schism
By the time the General Council concluded its business on Tuesday, it had sent shockwaves through the…
The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial
Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted…
Homecoming
In the mid-1980s, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and to the post-christening reception…
Fr. Rosica, Fraud
Earlier this month, journalists discovered that Fr. Thomas Rosica—an influential and (it was believed) media-savvy Catholic priest—had…
Letters from the Vatican: #6
How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…
Letters from the Vatican: #5
At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…
Letters from the Vatican: #4
“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…
Is the Church a Cage?
Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the…
Letters from the Vatican: #3
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…
