Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Court Out of Order
In April 2002 at the United Nations, ten countries simultaneously submitted their ratifications to the “Rome Statute”…
Wild Moralists in the Animal Kingdom
Prejudice gets a very bad press, but one cannot live without it. On numerous questions, we have…
The Sport of Easter
The anonymous alliterative Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the gems…
Poetry(March 2003)
Imagine the way those horses came plunging and foaming like a race undammed, and how the hot…
Apocalyptic Fever
I read with considerable interest Carl E. Olson’s essay on the apocalyptic fever of Tim LaHaye’s vast…
It’s the Theology, Stupid
What went wrong, and when, and why? Father Robert W. Crooker of the University of St. Thomas…
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment
In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell
The name of Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was so well known in nineteenth-century America that when residents of…
The New Fatherhood?
I’m sure we are all pleased that the Linkers have been blessed with a son, as Damon…
An Unnecessary Evil
When William Wilberforce rose in Parliament on the evening of May 11, 1789 to give his maiden…
Boston and Other Bishops
Who brought down the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston? A survey of print and broadcast media around the…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…
St. Peter’s Square
The great bell tolls midnight stirring echoes: emperors, martyrs, prophets in chains. Above Rome’s Seven Hills life…
