Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
No Unity Without the Cross
This essay was given as a homily on November 16, 2019, at the Mass of the Americas…
The Reformed Liturgy, 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with…
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an…
Title IX Trouble for Fuller Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary is facing a Title IX lawsuit from a former student, whom Fuller had expelled…
Hope As a Natural Virtue
Dante’s Commedia draws on the tradition of the seven virtues, four “natural” (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and…
The Armenian Genocide Today
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915.…
Why Did the Wall Fall, 30 Years Ago?
November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall—the symbolic high point…
Pope Francis and the American Bishops
During the most significant debate of last week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),…
The Philip Pullman Dilemma
If your soul was visible as an animal, what would it be? I suspect mine would be…
Infant Baptism and the Logic of Liberalism
My family goes to a lot of baptisms these days. With several of our Catholic friends raising…
Defining “Evangelical”
Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisisby thomas s. kiddyale, 200 pages, $26…
The “Synodality” Masquerade
During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of…
On Wounded Shepherds
Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Churchby austen ivereighhenry holt and co., 416…
Canada Divided Against Itself
When the separatist Parti Québécois first came to power in Québec more than four decades ago, the…
Why Eden Sank to Grief
A biweekly column about Jewish things. The first sin is the most interpreted event in history. Why…
