A meditation for Easter

Looking back on 60 years of priesthood, the author notes the importance of the cross, the Eucharist, faith and grace in giving people meaning, purpose and hope in life.

The Rev. Michael J. Himes was a theologian who taught with energy, order, concreteness, wit—and exuberance.

The dispossession Christ experienced in his crucifixion is an act of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.

Hint: He’s not another Francis.

The crises in the Catholic Church demand long-term solutions that are best addressed by gradual discernment leading to broad consensus on the part of the college of bishops.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that dissent from ordinary Magisterium should be disclosed privately to church authority.

The challenge is to rise from having empathy for a few to having empathy for many.

Three experts on church history and governance discuss Marco Politi's article on episcopal collaboration.

As a seminarian from 1960 to 1964 and as a priest from 1969 to 1971, I studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. One of the lessons I learned from several of the Jesuit professors there was the importance of attending to the historical circumstances surrounding the doctrinal pronouncemen