Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis
When my wife, Elizabeth, and I were married a quarter century or so ago, she was a…
The Last Great Homilist
Ronald Knox:A Man for All Seasonsedited by francesca bugliani knoxpontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $65…
Twenty-First-Century Conservatism
There are times when one reads something that provides a moment of sudden illumination. I had that…
The Three Necessary Societies
Rerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has…
Figure It In
Time and the Word:Figural Reading of the Christian Scripturesby ephraim radnereerdmans, 326 pages, $50 Moderns are accustomed…
How to Look at a Tree
Across the road from my house, presiding over a patch of lawn between my parish church and…
Mr. and Mrs. Fearmonger
The Cold World They Made:The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetterby ron robinharvard, 365 pages, $35…
Singing Aquinas in L.A.
When I was a child in parochial school, we began each morning with daily Mass. My mother…
I Like It at Home
“All my brothers went West and took up land, but I hung on to New England and…
Babel and Brexit
Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered…
Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose
The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having…
What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs
Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…
Keep Christianity Weird
Destroyer of the Godsby larry hurtadobaylor, 304 pages, $19.95 Three professors at a prestigious divinity school recently…
Bearing Witness from Prison in Indonesia
He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia’s most powerful…
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…
