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.
Theology
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Letter from Pope Francis to moral theologians gathered in Sarajevo
Read to the approximately 500 participants at the conference, the letter notes the symbolic value of holding the meeting in Sarajevo and also notes that Pope Francis is simpatico with the goals and themes of the participants.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How Teilhard de Chardin’s hidden response to Vatican censure finally came to light
Teilhard’s Six Propositions were locked away until 2007 when they were discovered in the Jesuit archives in Rome.
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Communion cannot be shared with friends like beer or cake, cardinal says
Communion is exclusively for Catholics in a state of grace and not something to be shared between friends, said Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze.
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Heavenly Bodies, from Michelangelo to Dolce & Gabbana
The highly visual culture of Catholicism is a natural influence for all manner of artists, fashion designers not exempted.