Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
An Open Letter to Pope Francis
We invite readers’ attention to The Misuse of Amoris Laetitia To Support Errors against the Catholic Faith,…
How I Changed My Mind About Pope Francis
Anyone who has stumbled across a long-forgotten diary will understand the embarrassment a journalist feels when he…
Our Own Devices
A flickering glow welcomed me to my university’s chapel service. Votive candles? If only. No, these were…
Advent with St. John of the Cross
Of all the saints of Advent, none is more attuned to the season than St. John of…
Axe of Advent
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” John the Baptist commands in a traditional Advent…
What Makes a Great Parish?
Great Catholic Parishes: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive by william e. simon, jr. ave maria…
Briefly Noted
Exodus by thomas joseph white, o.p. brazos, 336 pages, $32.99 In days past, to study Scripture was…
Man, Lion, Calf, and Eagle
The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus by francis watson baker…
A Gentle Orthodoxy
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present Day by andrew louth intervarsity, 383 pages, $28…
Mustard Seeds
The first chapter of Genesis is a grand liturgy of creation. The second chapter describes with existential…
Healing the Dying
At our annual reunions, my brother and sisters and I often joked that we flew home every…
The Protest
It wasn’t a perfect evening for a demonstration. The night was cold and damp. On the rain-slick…
Leaving the Party
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV:Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780–1794…
Down and Out at Del Mar
The most dismaying thing I have read in this year of crummy happenings was a one-page vignette…
Gnostic Liberalism
The idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the…
