Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Praying for Christian Unity
Fifty-eight years ago this week, on January 25, 1959, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, less than three months into…
Fake History
Speaking of public policy debates, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that, while everyone had a right to…
A Response to the Bishops of Malta
The Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano has published a document by the bishops of Malta to the priests of…
Nat Hentoff: One of a Kind
Nat Hentoff died recently, at the age of 91, in his own apartment, “surrounded by family [and]…
The Politics of Answered Prayer
Unanswered prayer is hard to take. “Ask and it will be given,” Jesus promises. When we ask…
Secular Pilgrims in America
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nationby leigh eric schmidtprinceton university press,…
Cocktails with the Existentialists
Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktailsby sarah bakewellother press, 448 pages, $25 More than seven decades…
Lessons from an Era of Confusion
In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr.…
United from Above
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name,” says Jesus, “there am I among them.”…
Reformational Preaching
The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology. Preaching…
Bioethics in 2017
Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…
New Year’s Wishes for some Catholic Brethren
The year ahead promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s…
Rogue One and the Return of Reverence
Star Wars is—or should be—a religious franchise. The Jedi are a monastic order trained in contemplating and…
Silence: Scorsese’s Spiritual Masterpiece
It has taken almost thirty years for Martin Scorsese to film Silence, Shūsaku Endō’s novel about Catholic…
Violent Lessons
Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who…
