Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Response to Francis Beckwith
It’s a strange day when I have to agree with Richard Dawkins against Frank Beckwith, but Beckwith’s…
David Brooks Adrift; The Family Chicken and Religious Egg
David Brooks is a most congenial fellow and as bright as a freshly polished penny. We were…
Limbo and the Gospel Out of Season
Back in October, I wrote in this space about how the Vatican’s International Theological Commission (ITC) was…
The Irrationality of Richard Dawkins
In his 2006 book, The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins laments the career path of Kurt Wise,…
Desperately Seeking Absolution
The thirty-six-year-old man from Sunrise, Florida, had years’ worth of sin to unload. As he prepared to…
Faithful Reason About Stem Cells
Two years ago, William Saletan¯Slate.com’s science reporter¯compared the typical approaches of Jewish and Catholic thinkers to bioethical…
Bearing Witness in a Time of War
The following homily was delivered by Fr. Neuhaus at the annual Memorial Mass of the Military Vicariate…
Grooving on Jesus
The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was less a coherent movement than a generalized wave…
The Life and Death of Religious Life
It was a truism—universally accepted until the last decades of the twentieth century—that, wherever the Catholic Church…
Kyrielle
For moments when they questioned me and I replied indifferently, or wished I’d practiced birth control, may…
Glosa: To the Divine
The beauty that can be eyed will never be my undoing, but rather what, beyond viewing, only…
June/July Letters
Jihad or Bust Mustafa Akyol believes that “the main obstacle to Christian religious freedom in Turkey is…
Pope Benedict on Reforming the Reform
The Public Square Yes, I know. I had promised a commentary on Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict’s apostolic…
Land of the Setting Sun
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger Doubleday, 340 pages,…
Canon 1398: A Clarification
I wrote in this space yesterday about the controversy surrounding the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI concerning…
