Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How the Side B Project Failed
In 2018, Wesley Hill published a report in First Things on a movement that claimed to be breaking new ground in…
Clerical Integrity and Hook-up Apps
Count me among those grateful for the work of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal (CLCR). A…
Working for Church Renewal
In 2018, the scandal involving then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick shocked the Catholic world. McCarrick had a global presence;…
Dangerous Revisionism
Nostra Aetate, issued at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council almost 60 years ago, represented a…
The New Ultramontanism and the Dissing of Vatican II
In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes…
Reforming Florida’s Universities: A Symposium
Many pearls have been clutched since Governor Ron DeSantis began reforming Florida’s state university system last spring.…
A Prayer to Jonah’s God
Forgive us, O Lord God of the Hebrews, for feeding Jonah to a large-mouthed whale. We sacrificed…
A Wild Christianity
Through the mouth of the cave I watched the storm front move in from the east. I…
Benedict Lives
Benedict XVI believed that his work was done. Three days after announcing his resignation, he gave a…
Cursed by the Boomers
What’s wrong with America? There’s a two-word answer: Baby Boomers. It’s more complicated than that, of course.…
Deadly Virtues
We live in a divided age. My country of Britain increasingly exhibits the same sort of partisanship…
Eros
It seems a silly thing, an object rather For study by the great pathologists, That anyone should…
Joseph Ratzinger
The pope entombed in the crypt under St. Peter’s Basilica on January 5, 2023 was without doubt…
Paul Johnson, Philo-Semite
Anti-Semitism, it has often been observed, is remarkably adaptable. Across countless centuries, anti-Semites have targeted Jews because…
Ratzinger and the Liberation Theologians
The legacy of Joseph Ratzinger does not rest on the institution of “pope emeritus,” which he pioneered.…
