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Mercy in a World Gone Mad
The day after the brutal terrorist attacks in France by ISIS, French President Hollande gave his country’s…
European Reconciliation
Currently, visitors to the Vatican Museums in Rome have the opportunity to visit an exhibition devoted to…
ECT at Twenty
From the introduction to Evangelicals and Catholics Together at Twenty: Vital Statements on Contested Topics (Brazos, 2015),…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
John Paul II’s “Beloved Krakow”
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based…
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
The Road to Nostra Aetate
Of all the documents of Vatican II, few have been more discussed and written about than Nostra…
Statting While Catholic
As a Catholic statistician, I tend to read any story headlined with “Surveys say Catholics . .…
Divorce and Communion
There were only two occasions in my life as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
What Comes After the Synod
Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new…
The Speaker and the Social Doctrine
TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of…
Thin Places
The following is a meditation for All Saints Day presented at Christchurch in Montgomery, Alabama. Several years…
The Saints and All of Us
Written from Rome: Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life…
Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On
It was, on the face of it, a minor theological gesture, yet it brought about one of…
Letter Number Twenty-Three
This will be the last in this series of LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD, and the final words…
