How can you shed light on the Catholic tradition without stating anything as truth?
Theology
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What writing about our parents can tell us about God
To profess that Jesus was truly human is to insist that he grew as we do.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The Moral Theology of Pope Francis: Questions for Jesuit Ethicist James Keenan
The pope practices a ‘very pastorally engaged moral theology.’
Posted inFaith, Features
How Catholic doctrine developed: case studies from Judge John Noonan
Christianity is not a relic laid in a museum; it is not a book entombed in an archive. It lives in the living people of God.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A theologian of unmatched influence
Martin E. Marty reviews “An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story” by Jeremy L. Sabella.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Jesus does not overwhelm. He woos us instead.
There would be no atheists if God appeared in the sky. But there’d be no believers either.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The resurrection comes by way of witness, not explanation.
There are truths that can only be shared by way of testimony, and these are the ones that matter most to us.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Can Catholics dissent from Pope Francis’ teaching on the family? Wrong question.
March 19 marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of “Amoris Laetitia.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
“Pope Francis is popular but not a populist,” prominent Argentinean theologian says
Francis is popular because he speaks in a simple, straightforward way, and people say, “I understand this pope.”
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What does it mean to age in heaven?
On earth we think of aging as an ineluctable curse. In heaven, it will be revealed as a real ripening.