The church has been making pastoral accommodations since the beginning, which means that future accommodations cannot be ruled out.

The words had a vaguely alien sound: postcolonial, mujerista, queer, eco-theological. But as I sat on our theology department’s hiring committee and read applicants’ dossiers, it was clear that the thinking behind these labels is shaping the work of many who are finishing doctoral studie

Thinking with the church in El Salvador

Icons of Hope John Thiel rsquo s creative effort to explore Christian belief in eternal life is clearly the work of a major theological thinker Focusing on the eschata the classical four last things mdash heaven hell death and judgment mdash Thiel rejects Kant rsquo s position on the limitatio

A response to the “pronounced magisterial activism” that began under Pope John Paul II

Essays from Los Angeles' Skid Row

From editors Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley, a sober assessment of contemporary Catholicism.

The story of the men and women who planted Christianity in Africa and Asia

Religious studies return to China.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, prefect of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, delivered an important address to the council’s plenary assembly on Nov. 14, 2006. In it he said that anyone who spoke “indiscriminately of retrogression, of standstill or even of an ecumenical &lsqu