The record number of women who will be serving in Congress following the momentous 2018 midterm elections may not be aware that the Bible supports their initiative to serve in this moment of political crisis.
Theology
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Catholics have a purgatory (and imagination) problem
On the Feast of All Souls, we recall how different God is from us, how wonderfully alien the halls of heaven are.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How to read virtuously: Fall Literary Review
With this Fall Books literary issue, we offer writers and texts that we certainly feel are best read closely and conscientiously.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Becoming a theologian means accepting an invitation
Our September 26 guest is Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M., professor emerita of New Testament studies and Christian spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, Calif. We discuss her recent article “The vocation of the theologian begins with an invitation.” We also discuss these stories: Pope Francis recognizes Chinese bishops ordained without papal approval Bishops draft […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Birth control and the Church, 50 years later
Mark Massa invites the reader to reconsider not only the church’s teaching on artificial birth control, but also the methodologies used to arrive at that teaching.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The model of a Catholic teacher: Cardinal Avery Dulles
Avery Dulles’ thousands of students remember him for the clarity of what he taught and wrote as a theologian and teacher. But he was more than that…
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The vocation of the theologian begins with an invitation
Most people just don’t know that their pondering about life, about what really matters, is called theology.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Evangelization isn’t getting people to fall in line—it’s getting them to fall in love
Immorality destroys the Gospel; sin—yours and mine—is precisely what puts people in the field hospital to begin with.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Sarajevo ethics conference: “no to exclusion and idolatry, yes to building bridges.”
Catholic moral theologians from around the globe conclude an international ethics conference with calls for prophetic action.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic theologians from Global South a major force at international ethics conference
A worldwide gathering of theological ethicists in Sarajevo features almost 500 theological ethicists from 80 countries.