Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Pro-Life Movement Isn’t About Trump
Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.” So counsels the demon…
Boris and the Burqa
Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…
Israeli Restoration
On July 9, Israel’s legislature passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.”…
WYD-1993: The Turning Point
On this twenty-fifth anniversary of World Youth Day in Denver, I can’t help sharing one of my…
An Open Letter from Young Catholics
Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of…
Revoice and a Vocation of “Yes”
At the end of July, in a barely air-conditioned Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri, beneath soaring…
Intrinsic Evil and McCarrick
Imagine that a depraved tyrant is oppressing your country, driving its citizens into misery. You have the…
Providential Transfiguration
On August 6, 1964, the Feast of the Transfiguration, Pope Paul VI issued his first encyclical, Ecclesiam…
Cardinal Dulles’s Dubia
Let us allow another cardinal to be, in effect, the author of several dubia. Writing in First…
The Job of Ultimate Observer
The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)by errol morrisuniversity of chicago press, 192 pages, $30 Suppose that…
Pope Francis and Capital Punishment
In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two…
Getting Out of God’s Way
Sometimes it takes a greater hero to refuse a destructive drink than to stand with a bayonet,…
Fences and Neighbors
In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the Areopagus, St.n Paul speaks…
Letter to an Aspiring Theologian
I was delighted to receive your letter asking about the best route to becoming a theologian. Let…
Fanon’s Warning
Alienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by steven corcoran bloomsbury academic,…
