Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Catholicism After 2018
Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical…
In the Gloom, the Gold
If our days were honeycombed with cells,waxy partitions, then the gold could oozeand spill its gleam and…
Homeless in Seattle
My name is Gil Costello, and I live at one of the Pike Place Market’s senior housing…
ELCA Hits Bottom
Schism is a serious matter. Even though the leaders of the congregations that left the Evangelical Lutheran…
Where Liberalism Helps
A vast oblong of Islamist, authoritarian, or sectarian persecution stretches from Egypt, Eritrea, Turkey, and Sudan, all the…
Ecumenical Winter?
In 1870, during a plenary session of the First Vatican Council, the Croatian bishop Josip Strossmayer complained…
The Spirit of Vatican I
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320…
Magisterial Irresponsibility
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
Redeeming Transcendence
We live in a time of disenchantment, or so we’re told. Strange. Our first text is an…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Friendship in a Time of Scandal
We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…
Harry Potter as Sacred Text
Traditional contemplative practices are in right now—and not only with the religious and pan-spiritual types you’d expect.…
