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Life at the Center: A Pro-life Statement

Thomas Joseph White

Those who seek to advance the Catholic Church’s teaching regarding the sanctity of life confront both new challenges and opportunities in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court...

Reopening the Sacramental Economy

Thomas Joseph White

How can the Church seek to provide sacramental care to the most people, especially those most in need, in the best possible way in our current conditions? In what...

Epidemic Danger and Catholic Sacraments

Thomas Joseph White

As the Church enters a Triduum where a great majority of the faithful lack public access to the sacraments, I’d like to offer some reflections that stand in sharp...

Letter to an Aspiring Priest

Thomas Joseph White

I’m grateful to you for getting in touch. Many people today would no doubt think you are strange for considering the priesthood, given the cloud that hangs over the...

The Metaphysics of Democracy

Thomas Joseph White

Dear Readers,  This version of “The Metaphysics of Democracy” differs from the version that was published in the February 2018 print edition. The editors regret that they mistakenly printed...

Catholicism in an Age of Discontent

Thomas Joseph White

We are at a turning point. For the past fifty years the Catholic Church has taken an apologetic approach to secular culture that depicts Catholicism as the fulfillment of...

Trust Witness

Thomas Joseph White

Revelation as Testimony by mats wahlberg eerdmans, 256 pages, $20 T wentieth-century theologians across a great spectrum—Catholic and Protestant, conservative and progressive—were critical of theories of divine revelation based...

Divine Perfection

Thomas Joseph White

The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson’s TrinitarianTheology? by scott r. swain?ivp academic, 258 pages, $24 How can we know if God exists? Is the existence of Godphilosophically demonstrable,...

The Light of the Torah

Thomas Joseph White

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has composed a message to the Christian community replete with intellectual light and heartfelt warmth, and it is a great honor to be asked to...

Sociology as Theology

Thomas Joseph White

Just when you thought liberal Protestantism was dead, Robert Bellah writes what is arguably the greatest work of liberal Protestant theology ever. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic...

The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II

Thomas Joseph White

Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation of that event. One derives from the theology surrounding the post-conciliar journal...

Love’s Greater Freedom

Thomas Joseph White

The following is a response to David S. Yeago’s “ Modern but Not Liberal .” The other response, by Shalom Carmy, can be found here . n n How...

Whether Faith Needs Philosophy

Thomas Joseph White

Abelard, claimed St. Bernard, was a logic-chopping rationalist whose writings were symptomatic of the anti-contemplative theology of the universities. The true theologian is a monastic contemplative. Luther had harsh...

Inevitable Scholasticism

Thomas Joseph White

Introduction to Scholastic Theology by ulrich g. leinsle trans. michael j. miller catholic university of america, 392 pages, $29.95 The standard narratives of twentieth-century Catholic theology written in the...