In the world of “Star Trek,” God remains a lodestar of human striving.

Pope Francis rsquo s first encyclical Lumen Fidei concluded that faith is ultimate grounded in love rsquo s knowledge of God in Christ Faith belongs to the order of interpersonal knowledge because God is personal ldquo It is love rdquo I wrote in my initial commentary ldquo that opens the eye

A vote will be held on the canonization of John XXIII, even in the absence of a miracle.

As I drive home on the 35E from St Paul to my home I am greeted by a huge Billboard from local station My Talk 107 1 which has a picture of Lindsay Lohan and the caption ldquo The Radio Home of Train Wrecks rdquo I ldquo know rdquo Lindsay Lohan in a passing way as I have seen Mean Girls an

We received from the Jesuit Curia today this account of the meeting between Pope Francis and Adolfo Nicol s SJ Superior General of the Society of Jesus which took place yesterday at the Casa Santa Marta nbsp The account was written by Father General himself nbsp We offer it in several langua

Pray for this Francis here rsquo s some of what faces him White smoke reported at 7 05 p m in Rome 2 05 p m Eastern Daylight Time They have we have a new pope My Pope Alarm application delivered 15 minutes later at 2 20 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina archbishop of Buenos Aire

In the biblical field there are matters of debate that remain unsettled, at least for now.

From 1997, Cardinal Avery Dulles on the theological heritage of the 20th century's greatest theologians

Worthwhile InvestmentRe “Culture Shift,” by Archbishop Robert J. Carlson (1/7): I am happy to note Archbishop Carlson’s support for promoting a culture of vocations through Catholic schools, especially among the growing Hispanic population in our country. For the past two decades,

Where would contemporary theology be except for the works of the Jesuits Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) of France, Karl Rahner (1904-84) of Germany, Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) of Canada and John Courtney Murray (1904-67) of the United States?The Swiss-born Hans