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

For the Jewish people Peter Fink S J once wrote God is the one who ldquo comes rdquo who ldquo leads rdquo who ldquo abides rdquo and who ldquo hides rdquo The early Christian community appealed to the same four dynamics in speaking of Christ ldquo the Christ who comes lsquo mara

Paul Krugman on our "gratuitous" recession

Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson is a profound analysis of Lord Acton’s 1887 maxim: power corrupts.

The first turning point of Vatican II

The Atlantic looks at the Vatican rsquo s attempt to get control of its media incompetence examining how it handled the 2010 speech that angered some in the Muslim world continued revelations of clergy sexual abuse and most recently the so-called Vati-leaks scandal From the article In this en