Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Bowdoin Told Us To Go
For the past decade, my wife and I have been the volunteer advisors to the Bowdoin Christian…
Mission Time
The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of…
A Visit to Cumorah, Hill of the Mormons
They had evidently not read Stanley Hauerwas. There were perhaps no actual American flags in the visitor’s…
Modern Cosmology and Creation
Does cosmology provide insights as to whether or not the universe is created? In a recent interview with…
Hope at the March for Marriage
Will the cause for traditional marriage follow the path of that for preborn life? Will judicial activism…
Don’t Joke About Sports
Sports are what men talk about when they really want to talk. Or at least that seems…
Theology of Sport
No sooner do I lay down Robert Ellis’s The Games People Play (which I’ve discussed here, here, and here)…
An Open Letter to the Patriarch of Moscow
His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Danilov Monastery 115191 Moscow RUSSIA Your Holiness: Grace…
Why Do People Become Catholic?
We recently hosted a talk by John Beaumont, author of The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber: A…
Jesus Came Preaching
At the heart of the Christian faith is a Savior who was a preacher. “And Jesus came…
John Paul and Francis at Yad Vashem
As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night”—March 21,…
Is Spain Regaining Its Faith?
Like Quebec, Ireland, or Boston, Spain has epitomized the fading of Catholic faith. In the twentieth century, religious…
The Pope Is Catholic
A recent story in the L.A. Times about the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…
Lamb Ascendant
When John ascends to heaven, he steps into the middle of a continuous worship service in a…
Innocents Abroad
Seeing as the Catholic Church has itself been the victim of a damaging disinformation campaign, one might…