Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When the Dodgers Moved to Los Angeles
If you are even a merely casual fan of Major League Baseball—if you aren’t among those we…
The Good News Is That the Bad News Isn’t All the News There Is
In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto de…
The Pope’s Favorite Theologian
It is old news that Pope Francis has a strong predilection for the thought of St. Vincent…
Briefly Noted — 3/24
A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition by paul a. soukup baylor, 240…
Undermining Just War
Pope Francis has denounced capital punishment in recent years, and responses from concerned Catholics have focused largely…
The Anti-Family Right
In certain corners of the internet, a new form of anti-feminism is gaining currency. Rather than extol…
Our Bodies, Our Anger
Our culture is full of angry women—angry at misogynist men, angry that careerism hasn’t brought the fulfillment…
Games of Chance
You’re bound to lose: the house will always win,in time. At first, though, Fortune flatters thosewho yield…
Compulsory Feminism
For a long time, what Alexis de Tocqueville called the American “spirit of freedom” was balanced by…
Peregrine Falcon
now thou but stoop’st to me—Ben Jonson The falcon like a teardrop heaven criesfrom higher than the…
America’s Greatest Explorer
On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House…
Resist the Machine Apocalypse
No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but…
Lost Women Novelists
Over the last half-century, dozens of remarkable Catholic women writers have fallen almost entirely out of print.…
Rome’s Concordat
A few months ago, I predicted that the Francis pontificate would seek to establish cordial relations with the…
IVF Needs More Regulation
How small is too small to care? That is the fundamental question now facing the citizenry in…
