Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Torchbearer of Thomism
On August 28, the French Dominican theologian Jean-Pierre Torrell (1927–2025) died at age ninety-eight in Fribourg, Switzerland.…
Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?
These are not easy days to be a Catholic pastor. In our age of entitlement and mixed…
Christianity Is Nothing Without Dogma
Even as I was writing my column on the irrelevance of mainline Christianity two weeks ago, the…
Did Vatican II Replace One-Sided Papalism with One-Sided Episcopalism?
As everyone knows, the Second Vatican Council was an extraordinary event, with ramifications not simply for Catholicism…
Theology for a Brave New World
In this episode, Fr. Thomas Joseph White joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
Bishop Barron, the German Church, and the Renewal of Faith
On July 27, Bishop Robert Barron was awarded the Josef Pieper Prize in Münster, Germany, joining the…
A Rahnerian Surprise
Karl Rahner, S.J. (1904–1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a…
St. John Henry Newman, Doctor for the Modern World
In 1874, three years before St. Francis de Sales was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, John…
Engineers for the Gospel
About twenty years ago, a lecturer in philosophy stopped by my office in the Engineering Faculty. He…
Goodbye, Saffron
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle…
Was St. Vincent of Lérins Anti-Augustinian?
One of Pope Francis’s favorite theologians, as many will remember, was the early church writer St. Vincent…
The Future of Catholic Theology
About ten years ago I found myself in China teaching a weeklong philosophy seminar on the thought…
Paul’s Ethnic Gospel
Grace, not race”—so goes the tidy maxim by which many modern interpreters characterize Paul’s gospel. In this…
The Ascension vs. Human Composting
There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh…
An Open Letter to the Bishops of Latin America
Fr. Clodovis M. Boff, OSM, was a leading figure in the development of liberation theology before emerging…
