Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
In Defense of Converts
Over at the National Catholic Reporter blog, Michael Sean Winters is pointing readers to a recent Al-Jazeera…
Our Cultural Waterloo
Tradition ascribes to the Duke of Wellington the saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on…
What Are We For?
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and…
Theology of the Booty
They’re Cows, We’re Pigsby carmen boullosagrove press, 192 pages, $12 A few years ago, the website You…
Mary Magdalene, Feminist Icon?
Tomorrow Christendom observes the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The woman from Magdala in Galilee was a…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
Romanticism of the “Lost Cause”
The ongoing conflict over the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, Charlottesville, and elsewhere has provoked…
Spadaro Contra Franciscum
Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa have a recent item in the Italian Jesuit review La Civiltà Cattolica, complaining…
Difficult Translation
The Face of Water:A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bibleby sarah rudenpenguin random house, 272…
We Want God
It’s been some days since President Trump delivered his speech in Poland on “the West,” but the…
Manichaean Misdiagnosis
In a recent issue of La Civiltà Cattolica, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J. and the Rev. Marcelo Figueroa…
St. Charles Borromeo: Model Bishop, Holy Reformer
When Pope Francis selected Mario Delpini as the new archbishop of Milan, commentators began discussing whether Delpini…
The Church of England’s Nietzschean Proposal
In a world of change and flux, it is reassuring to know that some things remain the…
Eugene Peterson’s Theological Sigh
This week, Eugene Peterson became arguably the most consequential evangelical to endorse same-sex relationships and marriage.* His…
Awkward? Or Wise?
Asked to name books that gave me the greatest intellectual jolt in recent decades, I’d quickly cite…
