Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Concerning Bullshit

Francis X. Maier

Princeton University, as its graduates will gladly tell you, is the real treasure of the Ivy League.…

Playing Church

Paul V. Mankowski

An Associated Press feel-good story surfaced recently concerning the festive send-off and theatrical suicide of a 75-year-old…

The Breath of God

Randy Boyagoda

What do a genocidal African ex-warlord, an ambitious and fecund Buddhist man with sixteen children, and a…

French and Ahmari Enter the Ring

Ramona Tausz

For much of their debate, hosted on Thursday at Catholic University of America, David French and Sohrab Ahmari were talking past each other. When…

Tullian Tchividjian’s Upside Down Christianity

Christopher Jackson

Four years after a sex scandal prompted him to depart from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tullian Tchividjian,…

A Theology of Meat

Cole S. Aronson

A reflection on this week’s Torah portion.  Last week I was eating a hamburger, and a relative asked…

The Fate of Hong Kong’s Christians

Alessandra Bocchi

Christians in Hong Kong overwhelmingly support the mass protests that have disrupted the region for the last…

A Sloppy Attack on National Conservatism

Brad Littlejohn

A great deal of ink has been spilt in recent months about the “new nationalism” taking hold…

In Praise of Today’s Seminarians

George Weigel

If you’re feeling a bit down about the future of Catholicism in the United States, ask yourself…

What Economics Is For

Marco Rubio

Almost 130 years ago, Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum Novarum. In this text, he defended…

The Sign of the Times

Hans Boersma

Vatican II was the council of the “signs of the times.” The conciliar documents use the expression…

Getting Beyond Darwin

George Weigel

Bishop Robert Barron and others working hard to evangelize the “Nones”—young adults without religious conviction—tell us that…

Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat

Matthew Schmitz

Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…

The Australian Disgrace

George Weigel

There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…

Look! It Is Jesus

John Schwenkler

What do Catholics believe happens to the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Liturgy of…