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

On the feast of Saint Bernard August 20 I am unlikely to celebrate his preaching of the Second Crusade Although he was ardent in fighting schisms and heresies in the church they were schisms and heresies so long now out of date that they do not much interest us today But he is also remembered

A dangerous book from Richard G. Lee

Some breaking news from the Vatican today via Reuters The Vatican has hired an American journalist from the Fox News Network and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media a senior Church source said on Saturday Greg Burke Fox s Rome-based

In our church it pays more to rebel than to faithfully question The Vatican under Benedict XVI is doing somersaults to get the excommunicated anti-semitic Lefebvrists back into the church rsquo s tent First the Vatican said that the Society of St Pius X SSPX had to agree to accept the teach