Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Betraying the Legacy of John Paul II
The most controversial document of this controversial pontificate, the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, is again at the center…
Love and Awe
A reflection on the weekly Torah portion. Love and awe: the religious mind is bent toward God…
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
In late June I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few…
The Spirit of Speech
A reflection on the weekly Torah portion. If a man takes a vow or an oath upon himself,”…
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…
Scandal in South Carolina
A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores,…
Orthodoxy and the Latin Mass
The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) seems to be gaining popularity. From academia to the commentariat, both the…
The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis
The Epistle of James strikes us as a letter of perennial wisdom. James encourages his readers to…
Keep It Real
An Avant-garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernity by jon kirwan oxford,…
Nietzsche’s Pilate
In one of his most irreverent moments, in the wild little book The Anti-Christ, composed not long…
Belief Limbo
In September 2017, the Public Religion Research Institute published a study of religion in America that showed…
Fear of the Word
My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it…
No Liberal Home
Jesus promises his followers that they will be hated in this world. “If the world hates you,…
The True Con
In June, an announcer on CBS observed, “George Will is essentially unchanged from the way he looked…
Alice McDermott’s Dying Breed
We often blame the unfavorable treatment of traditional religion in contemporary art on animus or ignorance. Sometimes…
