Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II
On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI as the 82nd saint among the…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #8
COMMENTARY ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS, URGENTLY The last decade of the pontificate of Pope Paul…
Steve Bannon’s European Movement
Is Europe’s new populist movement exclusively a rightwing phenomenon, or does it seek to unite anti-establishment forces…
The Catholic Crisis, In Perspective
Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in…
Reproductive Injustice
Trust Women:A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justiceby rebecca todd petersbeacon, 248 pages, $27.95 In Trust Women, Rebecca…
A Loving Ambivalence
The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #4
COMMENTARY SOPHIE SCHOLL, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, AND THE SYNOD It would be interesting to know how many of…
When Justice Fails
God has given the United States over to divisive blindness and stupidity. Americans watched Dr. Christine Blasey…
Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
Courage in the Slough of Despond
I never took a class from the historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the…
The Whole World Groans
St. Jerome, angry over the protracted Arian crisis and the apparent victory of the “semi-Arians” at the…
Kennedy’s Last Term
Twenty-eighteen brought the end of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s tenure on the Supreme Court. We are now entering…
The Nun and Vatican II
The Nun—director Corin Hardy’s horror movie set in 1952 in a remote, ultra-traditional Catholic convent in Romania—is…
Reflections on the Revolution
I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the…
Dr. Mumford
Good Dr. Mumford was an atheist;He didn’t really understand the Creed.But as a cautious-minded scientist,He thought it…
