Can the humanities help us find intellectual, emotional and spiritual shelter during our present time of crises?
Theology
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Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
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The legacy of Father Adolfo Nicolás
Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., former superior general of the Society of Jesus, helped to recenter the role of imagination in Jesuit education and in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the whole person.
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How Catholics can use this time without the Eucharist to grow closer to Christ
In discerning the necessity to avoid contagion in comparison with the need to offer access to the sacraments, it is necessary to comprehend what is at stake in each area.
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Criticizing a pope: A dialogue between Massimo Faggioli and Bill McCormick, S.J.
When is it appropriate to criticize a reigning pope, and what implications does that question have for Catholic ecclesiology?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Arguing with Timothy Radcliffe
How can Christian faith be made sensible to our contemporaries?
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All hospitals want to save lives. Should they also be seeking to save ‘life years’?
The ethical problem with talking about ‘expected life years’
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Review: Paul Mariani’s life in verse
Paul Mariani’s poems ask, “Does God know us only by the names our parents gave us?,” another reminder of how the human and eternal meet.
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Review: Jia Tolentino on the realities of life
In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.
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The coronavirus gives Catholic universities a chance to strengthen their identity
In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?