Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When Justice Fails
God has given the United States over to divisive blindness and stupidity. Americans watched Dr. Christine Blasey…
Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
Courage in the Slough of Despond
I never took a class from the historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the…
The Whole World Groans
St. Jerome, angry over the protracted Arian crisis and the apparent victory of the “semi-Arians” at the…
Kennedy’s Last Term
Twenty-eighteen brought the end of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s tenure on the Supreme Court. We are now entering…
The Nun and Vatican II
The Nun—director Corin Hardy’s horror movie set in 1952 in a remote, ultra-traditional Catholic convent in Romania—is…
Magisterial Irresponsibility
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced…
Reflections on the Revolution
I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the…
Dr. Mumford
Good Dr. Mumford was an atheist;He didn’t really understand the Creed.But as a cautious-minded scientist,He thought it…
Catholicism After 2018
Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical…
In the Gloom, the Gold
If our days were honeycombed with cells,waxy partitions, then the gold could oozeand spill its gleam and…
Homeless in Seattle
My name is Gil Costello, and I live at one of the Pike Place Market’s senior housing…
ELCA Hits Bottom
Schism is a serious matter. Even though the leaders of the congregations that left the Evangelical Lutheran…
Where Liberalism Helps
A vast oblong of Islamist, authoritarian, or sectarian persecution stretches from Egypt, Eritrea, Turkey, and Sudan, all the…
Ecumenical Winter?
In 1870, during a plenary session of the First Vatican Council, the Croatian bishop Josip Strossmayer complained…
