Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
Letters—June/July 2007
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,…
Grooving on Jesus
The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was less a coherent movement than a generalized wave…
Canon 1398: A Clarification
I wrote in this space yesterday about the controversy surrounding the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI concerning…
Catholic Politicians and Excommunication
Earlier this month, a reporter asked Pope Benedict XVI whether he agreed with the Mexican bishops who…
