Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Spirit of Vatican I
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
Redeeming Transcendence
We live in a time of disenchantment, or so we’re told. Strange. Our first text is an…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Friendship in a Time of Scandal
We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…
Harry Potter as Sacred Text
Traditional contemplative practices are in right now—and not only with the religious and pan-spiritual types you’d expect.…
Abortion on Trial
Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…
Shakespearean Meta-Politics
I take as my text Shakespeare’s Richard III. Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies of English history. The first…
Thoughts on the Instrumentum Laboris
Over the past several months, I’ve received scores of emails and letters from laypeople, clergy, theologians, and…
You Are Peter
You may know this story, but it bears repeating. On October 27, 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin of the…
Maintenance vs. Mission
Just when the Long Lent of 2002 was coming to a boil in March of that year,…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
The Gold Virgin
What do the children of divorce know? Do they close their eyes at the moral messes in…
