Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why the Death Penalty Is a Sore Point for Papal Authority
Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following…
The Myth of St. Francis
At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the…
Job and Her
It is said that Job lost everything, but she has lost more. All her possessions—the money, the…
Letters—November 2026
I appreciate J. H. H. Weiler’s desire for God’s mercy to be extended to Gentiles and his…
Armenia’s Unbroken Courage
In mid-September, I joined a lunch with the leaders of a village in Syunik, southern Armenia. The…
Be Wise as Chameleons
Visiting Philippi on his second missionary expedition, Paul starts a riot. When he casts a python demon…
Betting Against Your Neighbor
At a semiannual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, D. Todd Christofferson—one of…
Recovering Christian Humanism
Confusion over what it means to be human, and over whether human nature has an intrinsic moral…
Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity
In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of…
No Right to Erase Baptism
Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontological change or a piece of recorded personal data to be…
The Church in the Age of Therapy
In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to…
Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in…
Ukraine’s Church in Civilizational Crisis
The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial…
The Fraying Fabric of the Church of England
St. Paul’s Cathedral has come up with a novel way to fill the pews: It is becoming…
Talkin’ God and Football
Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening.…
