The Pro-Natalist Case for Nuns
by Alexi SargeantThe witness and work of the celibate supports a culture of life. Continue Reading »
“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit
by George WeigelThere is no single reform template that will address different forms of clerical sexual misconduct in quite diverse circumstances Continue Reading »
Revoice and a Vocation of “Yes”
by Wesley HillRevoice is trying to pose the deeper question: To which forms of love and friendship and service are we called to say yes? Continue Reading »
Mortal Frames
by J. Todd BillingsA Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by ephraim radner baylor, 304 pages, $49.95 A Time to Keep is an odyssey—a journey through childhood and adolescence, work and sexuality, aging and dying. The reader encounters Sigmund Freud on dying and death, . . . . Continue Reading »
A Paulist Priest’s Wonderful Life
by William Doino Jr.At ninety-five, Fr. James Lloyd is the oldest living Paulist priest. But you’d never know that from following his busy schedule. Continue Reading »
Celibacy, Self-Acceptance, And the Extra Inkling
by Eve TushnetDescent into Hell is a complex portrait of the relationship between the living and the dead. It's a book of apologetics written in the style of horror. And it's a book about acceptance. Continue Reading »
Of Marriage and Orthodox Priests
by Wesley J. SmithIf anyone had asked me what I thought about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its priests can marry. My presumption was mostly wrong. While there are certainly important similarities between the theologies of world’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousBARTH'S LEGACY I am grateful to Phillip Cary for his admirable review of my book Reading Barth with Charity (April). I have only one demurral. I would simply like to enter a plea for greater historical consciousness. After all, it has not yet been fifty years since Barth’s death. It seems . . . . Continue Reading »
Vivent les differences!
by Carl R. TruemanDavid Mills has found himself in trouble—for making the stunning claim that conservative Catholics are not conservative Protestants, and conservative Protestants are not conservative Catholics. Continue Reading »
Dismantling the Cross
by Patricia SnowGenerally speaking, there are two principal vocations in the life of the Catholic Church: marriage on the one hand, and celibate priesthood and religious life on the other. Both are expressions of conjugal love. In the normal calling of marriage, an individual binds himself for life to another human . . . . Continue Reading »
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