Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why I Am a Protestant
The week of October 31, the traditional time to remember the Reformation, is also the annual moment…
Balm for Germany?
A biweekly column about Jewish things. As a Jewish child, I was taught to accept Holocaust survivors’…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #9
THERE’S A PONY IN HERE SOMEWHERE: A POST-SYNODAL REFLECTION BY GEORGE WEIGEL According to his longtime consigliere, Edwin Meese, President Ronald…
The Synod’s Dissenters
Barack Obama announced in 2012 that religious liberty was “an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution. As…
Finitude Frustrates
Raymond Tallis begins Of Time and Lamentation with a poignant description of his experience of time. Waking…
Child Abuse By Another Name
James Younger, a seven-year-old boy, has become a court mandated girl. In none other than Dallas, Texas,…
The Ideological Hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod…
Letters From the Synod-2019: #8
“INCULTURATION” AND THE CULTURE THAT IS THE CHURCH by George Weigel “Inculturation” has been a buzzword throughout…
The New Irish Ecumenism
Northern Ireland has been at the center of the recent Brexit debates. By insisting on a unified…
Dark Days in Northern Ireland
Until midnight on October 21, abortion was permitted in Northern Ireland only if the mother’s life was…
Demon of Disunity
Some demons are particularly noxious. The only antidote that gets rid of them is prayer. Jesus makes this…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #7
The synods of 2014 and 2015, called to examine the grave challenges posed to marriage and family…
Poland Polarized
In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the…
Letters From the Synod-2019: #6
“Guests” on Planet Earth? At a gathering of like-minded scribes and media commentators shortly after Synod-2019 began,…
Human Dignity Redefined
In revolutionary countries you expect to find desecration: churches turned into lavatories or reformatories, their sanctuaries wrecked…
