Reevaluating just war theory for a new millennium.
Theology
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Peter Faber: A Jesuit Saint Too Little Known
Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Thoughts on Yom Kippur
From the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, until the end of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Jews around the world engage in an intense annual period of repentance.
Posted inFaith
There is a divine drama unfolding, and we have a part to play in it.
Balthasar believed our contemplation of God must take its cue from Christ, who entered into solidarity with human suffering.
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What I learned about prayer from Hans Urs von Balthasar
Balthasar seemed to know just what I was feeling: Christians, he said, often feel like a foreigner forced to speak in a language whose rules they have never learned, or a stuttering child who wants to say something but cannot.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Jesuit Karl Rahner was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. But he was first and foremost a priest.
“Students who understood very little of his lectures told me that they attended because they ‘felt better’ about themselves in his presence. ‘This is a professor to whom I can confess,’ one said.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Force to Reckon With
In this brief but compelling little book Joseph Kelly professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio offers a thoughtful contemporary theodicy for young Christians Framed as a meditation on the events of Sept 11 2001 the book marshals Kelly rsquo s wide knowledge
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Walter Kasper: On the church
Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
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Ways of Salvation?
Jacques Dupuis is a Belgian Jesuit who taught theology for over 30 years in India before joining the faculty at the Gregorian University in Rome, where we were colleagues during the last decades of my professorship there. His many years in India gave him the experience of being a member of the Chris
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Due Process in the Church
The recent investigation and trial of the theologian Jacques Dupuis, S.J., alerted Catholics and others to the judicial methods of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Am., 3/12, Signs of the Times).