Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has suffered cardiac arrest in recent decades.
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The History Behind Celibacy and the Priesthood
Why and how did the celibate state became a requirement for ordination?
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Liturgy in Media Culture
I used to think it was arrogant of the church not explicitly to include symbols from popular media culture in liturgy.
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Walter Kasper: On the church
Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
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Ways of Salvation?
Jacques Dupuis is a Belgian Jesuit who taught theology for over 30 years in India before joining the faculty at the Gregorian University in Rome, where we were colleagues during the last decades of my professorship there. His many years in India gave him the experience of being a member of the Chris
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The Impact of ‘Dominus Iesus’ on Ecumenism
Although the major theme of the document Dominus Iesus, which was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Sept. 5, concerns the role of Christ and his church in the salvation of people who do not share Christian faith, the strongest reactions to it have come from spokespersons of
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The Millennium and the Papalization of Catholicism
Everyone has been trying to see the big picture. We have been bombarded with a certain type of question. Who is the man or woman of the century—better, of the millennium? What are the happenings in the past thousand years that most changed the course of history?
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What Theology Is and Is Not
Theology is not faith. It isn’t catechesis or religious studies, either.