Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Future of News
For about a century, American journalism had a paradigm that positioned the industry as essential to liberal…
Julien Green’s Vatican II
Several years ago, I came across some odd volumes of the journal of Julien Green in a…
The Civility Trap
Lots of folks are calling for civility these days, an understandable response to a shrill and polarized…
Methodist Schism
By the time the General Council concluded its business on Tuesday, it had sent shockwaves through the…
The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial
Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted…
Homecoming
In the mid-1980s, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and to the post-christening reception…
Fr. Rosica, Fraud
Earlier this month, journalists discovered that Fr. Thomas Rosica—an influential and (it was believed) media-savvy Catholic priest—had…
Letters from the Vatican: #6
How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…
Letters from the Vatican: #5
At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…
Letters from the Vatican: #4
“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…
Is the Church a Cage?
Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the…
Letters from the Vatican: #3
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…
“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit
Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…
Letters from the Vatican: #2
Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…
Can the West Find Forgiveness?
World leaders’ interventions in the West’s current migrant controversy are rarely helpful. In February 2017, Pope Francis, speaking…
