Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Pro-Natalist Case for Nuns
A strange Twitter exchange last week launched a conversation about the relationship between celibate vowed religious and…
What Are Biblical Values?
Give John J. Collins credit for showing his cards up front. In his What Are Biblical Values?…
What She Asks, She Obtains
When historian Henry Adams and his fellow Americans—including Augustus St. Gaudens, Margaret Terry Chanler, Willa Cather, and…
Vincent Lambert and Relative Justice
On Thursday, the world was informed that Vincent Lambert had died. He died of starvation and dehydration,…
A World Without Mothers
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Familyby sophie lewis verso, 224 pages, $26.95 Now that Western elites have agreed that…
Business As Communion
During a visit to Brazil in 1991, the Italian Catholic activist Chiara Lubich called for a new…
A Voice of Sanctified Reason
I recently participated in a panel discussion about the sexual chaos in the contemporary church. As everyone…
Communion and Ecclesial Governance
Last week, Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson declared that Brebeuf Jesuit High School is no longer a Catholic…
They Did Nothing But Pray
My birthday, January 12, is also the anniversary of an event that had a more fundamental and…
Interpreting the Bladensburg Cross Case
Last week, the Supreme Court decided the much-awaited Bladensburg Cross case, American Legion v. American Humanist Association. …
Public Faith and the Peace Cross
On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case American Legion v. American Humanist…
Whose Republic? Which “Liberalism”?
Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous…
Summer Reading
Me: A couple of weeks ago, when the Summer Reading extravaganza of the New York Times Book…
A Call for Radical Renewal
Tomorrow, the United States Council of Catholic Bishops will meet in Baltimore for its General Assembly. This…
