Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Civil Marriage Business

J. D. Flynn

In his 2015 Erasmus Lecture, Archbishop Charles Chaput called on America’s bishops to reconsider the Church’s role…

Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later

George Weigel

Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well…

Waiting for Vatican Reform

Marco Tosatti

Pope Francis raised great expectations when, on April 13, 2013, one month after being elected to Peter’s…

The Universal Russian Soul

Nathan Nielson

Russia is turning inward. As the fabric of purpose and identity seems to fray among Western nations,…

Alvin Plantinga’s Masterful Achievement

William Doino Jr.

When Alvin Plantinga was awarded this year’s Templeton Prize, he joined a host of other prominent winners, including Mother…

Samson’s Spirituality

Peter J. Leithart

Samson is the most Spiritual man in the Old Testament, the most Pentecostal of Israel’s heroes. Given…

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

Paul Seaton

The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…

Watching George Pell

Philippa Martyr

Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…

I Like It at Home

Mark Bauerlein

“All my brothers went West and took up land, but I hung on to New England and…

Babel and Brexit

Shalom Carmy

Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered…

The Age of Concentration

Eugene Vodolazkin

Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is…

Dress Up

G. Bruce Boyer

For quite a few years now, academic philosophers and socio­logists, as well as pop­ular social commentators who…

Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis

James Zacchaeus

When my wife, Elizabeth, and I were married a quarter century or so ago, she was a…

The Last Great Homilist

Matthew Walther

Ronald Knox:A Man for All Seasonsedited by francesca bugliani knoxpontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $65…

Twenty-First-Century Conservatism

R. R. Reno

There are times when one reads something that provides a moment of sudden illumination. I had that…