After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., James H. Cone denounced the lukewarm responses of mainline Protestant and Catholic Christians to the plight of black Americans.
Theology
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Advent is about desire
Fr. James Martin, S.J., writes “desire is a key way that God speaks to us, whether in Advent or the rest of the year.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Out of Africa: How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church
How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Behind Closed Doors
The diaries of Yves Congar, the single most important theologian of Vatican II.
Posted inFaith
America’s Theologian: An archive of articles by John Courtney Murray
An archive of articles by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray
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St. Ignatius of Loyola: A (very) brief bio
Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.
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Give the Sacred Heart devotion a second chance
We are missing a powerful and vivid symbol of the love of Jesus, writes Father James Martin. For the Sacred Heart is nothing less than an image of the way that Jesus loves us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Pardon Is the Word: Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness
Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness.