Fratelli Tutti's Bridging of the Death Penalty Gap
Gregory Caridi on why Pope Francis's latest encyclical does not change Church teaching.
Evolution, Cooperation, and God
Sarah Coakley on the compatibility of recent evolutionary discoveries with classical theism.
Fides et Ratio After Athens and Jerusalem
Frederick Lawrence on the late modern need for Socratic breaks.
The Future of Catholicism
Jean-Luc Marion on the unknowability of God and man.
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Murder in the Cathedral: The Face of Christ in the Victims of Nagasaki
David Albert Jones on George Weigels defense of dropping the bomb.
The Poetic Body of the Benedictine Charism
Margarita Mooney on Newman's writings on St. Benedict.
Neuroscience Disappears When the Complex Whole Is Decomposed
Patrick McNamara on the need to avoid "nothing but" solutions in science.
The Mood of Prayer in Newman's Grammar of Assent
Nicholas Lash on Newman's seminal work in the philosophy of religion.
Can Concepts Capture Love?
Claude Romano on Jean-Luc Marion's rigorous and rational philosophy of love.
Holding Your Nose: How to Vote Like a Catholic
Brett Salkeld on prudential judgments and intrinsic evils.
Communal Guilt and the Black Catholic Experience in America: An Interview with Fr. Josh Johnson
Shaun Blanchard interviews Fr. Johnson about Black Catholic history.
Religious Freedom: A Non-Partisan Principle for Hyper-Partisan Times
Michael Baxter on a new and more historical way of looking at a hot topic of national debate.
The Aesthetic Inversion in the Religious Conversion of St. Francis of Assisi
Matthew Chominski on whether beauty or ugliness is the deepest truth of reality.
A Quest for the Historical Saint Francis
Augustine Thompson, OP on a historical scholar encountering St. Francis of Assisi.
What Angels Can Teach Us About Being Human
David Albert Jones on how studying angels can combat anthropocentrism.
Originalism Isn't the Judicial Version of Biblical Fundamentalism
Elizabeth-Jane and Steven McGuire on Amy Coney Barrett's judicial theory.
Letting the Dogma Live Loudly: A Self-Help Guide
Christopher Baglow on how dogma functions within the lives of Catholics.
The Overvaluation of Achievement in Catholic Schools
Christine Baglow on the place of Autism Spectrum Disorder children in the Church's pedagogy.
The Wobbly Chronology of Disenchantment
Haley Stewart on the dated idea of progress and the novel Piranesi.
T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita
Brendan Case on Krishna, the Virgin Mary, and detachment in T.S. Eliot's long poems.
The Administrative Challenges Catholic Universities Face During the Pandemic and Beyond
Mark Villano on what goes into the corporate identity of Catholic universities.
By Man Shall His Blood Not Be Shed?
Roberto De La Noval on the Bible and changes in the Catechism regarding the death penalty.
Three Tantalizing Enigmas in Dante’s Heaven of the Sun
Robert Imbelli on Solomon, the circle of theologians, and the celebration of the risen body in Dante.
Identity Dysphoria and the Sacraments of Initiation
Francesca Murphy on what's in a name.
Even Doctors of the Church Make Theological Mistakes Now and Again
Cory Hayes on St. Robert Bellarmine's arguments in the Galileo Affair.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Quarantined
John Cavadini on the need for a renewed, refreshed, and rearticulated dogmatic.
The Incomplete Picture of Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Mark Clark on medieval universities and the future of Catholic education.
Canon Law and the Fight Against Child Marriage
Laura Bramon Hassan on traditional societies and the modern sexualization of minors.
What Are Kingdoms but Great Bands of Robbers?
Terence Sweeney on empires and theft in Augustine and Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Time and Meaning
Frank Pasquale on the speed of a life worth living.
The Christian's Mission to Birth Christ
Jean-Paul Juge on the theological implications of the Book of Revelation.
One-Liners on Race From the Pope and Other Catholic Officials Won't Do Anymore
Fr. Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp. on the need for local and world-wide synods on race.
Percy and Pence and the American Sense of Scripture
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Christian nationalism's slips of the tongue.
Augustine and the Trials of Fallen Friendship
Randall Smith on Augustine's realistic theology of friendship.
Gregory the Great's Transvaluation of Life and Death
Carole Straw on Gregory the Great pondering the importance of the Second Death.
Whiteness as an Ecclesiological Heresy
Joseph Flipper on racism and the loss of catholicity.
The Orderliness of the Cosmos Is Far Deeper Than the Ancients Ever Suspected
Stephen Barr on the surprisingly high degree of order in the laws of nature.
97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
Cyril O'Regan on Hegel's 250th birthday and spiders.
Saint Augustine's Secularization of Rome
R.A. Markus on the roots of the secular in Augustine's thought.
