Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Holy See, China, and Evangelization
In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain…
Pope Paul Said No
In September 1988, just five months before his death, Fr. John Ford, SJ revealed a conversation he had had…
Andy Stanley’s Modern Marcionism
Walk into one of the old Episcopal churches on the East Coast, and once your eye has…
Versions of Paul
The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…
An All-Too-Moveable Feast
We American Catholics are now in the post-Easter Season of the Bollixed Holy Days. One of them—occurring…
Cheap Joy
On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
Making a Diverse College of Cardinals Work
With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every…
More on the College of the Holy Cross
Charlotte Allen and George Weigel have each written sharply on the controversy at the College of the…
Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual
You’ve asked me how to become an intellectual. You’re young, it seems (only young people ask questions…
Soloveitchik the Zionist
Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,” cried a Jewish…
Dissenters from Disenchantment
Monterey Peninsula College is a two-year school in California. Students in the Great Books Program there don’t…
The Theology of Foreign Policy
On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor…
Oscar Romero, Martyr and Saint
The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nationsby oscar romeroplough, 140 pages, $8…
David as Politician
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232…
