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Faith Faith and Reason
December 19, 2023
Looking back on 60 years of priesthood, the author notes the importance of the cross, the Eucharist, faith and grace in giving people meaning, purpose and hope in life.
Faith Short Take
June 17, 2022
The Rev. Michael J. Himes was a theologian who taught with energy, order, concreteness, wit—and exuberance.
Faith Faith and Reason
March 28, 2021
The dispossession Christ experienced in his crucifixion is an act of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.
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Faith Short Take
July 15, 2020
Hint: He’s not another Francis.
Faith Faith and Reason
October 02, 2018
The crises in the Catholic Church demand long-term solutions that are best addressed by gradual discernment leading to broad consensus on the part of the college of bishops.
Faith Short Take
November 02, 2017
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that dissent from ordinary Magisterium should be disclosed privately to church authority.
GENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY. Children spend time with their grandmother in 2012 on the front porch of their home in Hillsdale, Mo.
June 21, 2016
The challenge is to rise from having empathy for a few to having empathy for many.
Ideas
April 20, 2009
Three experts on church history and governance discuss Marco Politi's article on episcopal collaboration.
September 17, 2007
As a seminarian from 1960 to 1964 and as a priest from 1969 to 1971, I studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. One of the lessons I learned from several of the Jesuit professors there was the importance of attending to the historical circumstances surrounding the doctrinal pronouncemen