Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christian Religion as Common Language
In postwar Britain, the Butler Education Act (1944) required all schools to teach religious education and to…
Fr. Manners
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I fell asleep at your book talk . . . …
Motown and the Turbocharged Church
Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades, as it’s struggled to cope with…
Saving Christians from Genocide
Two years after its release, this still photo, taken from an ISIS propaganda video, remains as haunting as…
Whence the Convert Problem?
I was initially perplexed by the recent dust-up over converts in the Catholic commentariat. It seemed an…
Gratitude So Burdensome?
Anthony Kronman thinks that Christianity contains the seeds of its own undoing. A “born-again pagan” and former…
Return of the Vocations Crisis
The recovery in priestly vocations seems to be over. Between 1978 and 2012, after the great crisis…
Pope Benedict’s Red Thread
One shouldn’t speak of a “cult of personality” when describing the papal devotional items that are offered…
A Church That Is A Home
Writing in Commonweal, Massimo Faggioli complains that the Catholic Church in America is dominated by converts—including me. Faggioli is a…
Ecumenism, Influence-envy, Etc.
Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of…
On Being a Lapsed Catholic
I was the first of my family to apostatize, and—since the family ends in me—I must be…
“Sensus Fidei” and Fr. Martin
In a July 14 article, responding to queries about Building a Bridge, his new book on the…
On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores
The Book of Revelation contains vivid imagery, wild analogies, and rhetoric rife with end-times judgment. John’s enigmatic…
Questions of Competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of…
The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
The Catholic Church is a bone in the throat of our secular culture. Of course we’ve all…
