Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Pope’s Liturgical Liberalism
One of the more deft moves in Benedict’s apostolic letter motu proprio , titled ” Summorum Pontificum…
In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
Tearing humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism is all the rage today among academics, philosophers, and other…
Stop Reading This Now
What are you doing looking here on the Fourth of July? Go away. Set off some firecrackers.…
The Myth of the Falwell Insurgency
Although Jerry Falwell’s legacy will remain a contentious issue for some time to come, partisans on all…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
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…
