Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Providential Transfiguration
On August 6, 1964, the Feast of the Transfiguration, Pope Paul VI issued his first encyclical, Ecclesiam…
Cardinal Dulles’s Dubia
Let us allow another cardinal to be, in effect, the author of several dubia. Writing in First…
The Job of Ultimate Observer
The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)by errol morrisuniversity of chicago press, 192 pages, $30 Suppose that…
Pope Francis and Capital Punishment
In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two…
Getting Out of God’s Way
Sometimes it takes a greater hero to refuse a destructive drink than to stand with a bayonet,…
Fences and Neighbors
In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the Areopagus, St. Paul speaks…
Letter to an Aspiring Theologian
I was delighted to receive your letter asking about the best route to becoming a theologian. Let…
Fanon’s Warning
Alienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by…
Conservatism’s Next Generation
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in Washington over the dramas of the Trump administration, not to mention…
Understanding Marion Maréchal
Since the 1980s, the French left and right have formed a front républicain or cordon sanitaire to keep…
Did Joseph Forgive His Brothers?
We still claim to think well of forgiveness, but it has in fact very nearly lost its…
Sacramental Realism
To outsiders, the proposal of communion for the divorced and remarried seems a modest adjustment. But it…
Briefly Noted
The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition by reginald lynch,…
Culture War As Class War
The ongoing uproar after the election of Donald Trump led the sociologist James Davison Hunter to reflect…
Cultural Realpolitik
On a clear June day in 2017, two million people lined the route of the New York…
