Theology
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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…
Books Versus Screens
The rise of film and television in the first half of the twentieth century led several of…
A Castle of Thought
The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Goodby frederick lawrenceuniversity of toronto press, 456 pages,…
Everything in Its Place
A place for everything; everything in its place—that’s what crossed my mind as I listened to the…
The Good Soldier
Pope Francis declined to renew the appointment of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of…
A Tragedy Either Way
On June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, George Cardinal Pell was charged with a…
