Some Catholics have abandoned philosophy as a central component of the church’s discourse.
Theology
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Was Pope Benedict really a ‘liberal’ turned ‘conservative’?
Deconstructionists, those intellectuals who make it their job to ask critical questions about our long-cherished collective stories, like to ask, among other things, who or what cause is best served by a given narrative. They might ask, for example, whose interests are served by a story that tells o
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Want to be more humble? There’s a prayer for that.
Pride isn’t the answer to our fears. Humility is. If you lack humility, pray for God to gird your life with love.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Theology of Taylor Swift
No topic is out of bounds for the theologian.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why we need purgatory
Pastoral care re-imagined in light of purgatory can bring our world much needed healing and communion.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why do we pray to a God that allows the evil of the Holocaust?
If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Catholic Book Club Archives
From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
‘Would you baptize an alien?’ and other questions you’d want to ask Vatican astronomers
Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., and Father Paul Mueller, S.J., are planetary scientists for the Vatican Observatory based at the pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
Posted inFaith
Black theology and a legacy of oppression
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.
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.