In a troubled time in our nation’s history, can we unite around shared commitments to freedom, human dignity and truth?
Theology
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Who suffers most during the coronavirus pandemic?
As we face the challenge of Covid-19, our obligations to the citizens of our own country must not negate our duties to global humanity. Active support for the poor and the displaced will be essential in longer-term efforts for a more just, more inclusive and healthier post-crisis world.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How one graduating senior is choosing happiness over desolation in spite of coronavirus
The first in her family to attend college, a student reflects with her professor on her life of struggles and growth as she prepares to graduate from Loyola Marymount University.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Editorial: Discerning when and how a pope emeritus should speak
It would be a powerful outward sign of unity in the church if the pope emeritus and those who advise him sought to avoid situations in which his public comments will be inevitably misused to suggest a division that Benedict has never wanted.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Geological virtues
Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader on a tour de force of geology that explains how the contemporary earth sciences help with what religiously inclined readers might call the task of theological anthropology: a consideration of the world beyond humans, the world with humans, and the forces far beyond that shape us all.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Editor’s note: Welcome to Spring Books 2020
From features on contemporary writers to looks back at some of our greatest literary figures, along with poetry, biography, social criticism and more, our Spring Books 2020 issue has something for everyone (well, almost everyone).
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How Catholic theology helped me understand Thomas Chatterton Williams’ controversial take on race
Thomas Chatterton Williams, a fierce critic of identity politics, urges readers to move beyond a black-white binary in discussing or thinking about race in the United States.
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Review: What lapsed Catholic writers can teach us about our faith
The fiction of Catholic writers (and their lapsed Catholic brethren) has been described as “an invitation to mystery, not mastery, to communion, not control.”
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Review: Doing theology in light of science, and vice versa
The core of Roger Haight’s new project is to ask “what science can teach Christian theologians about our own self-understanding” and to offer an answer to Christians who “either do not know how to process their Christian faith in this context or call it into question altogether.”
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Review: When the meek are not blessed
If anything, the dystopia is even scarier in the sequel, which provides terrifying detail on the history of the Christian fundamentalist regime that overthrows the United States at Gilead’s founding.