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About Tracey Rowland
Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia) and is a Member of the International Theological Commission. She earned her doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University and her Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. She is the author of several books, including Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI (2008), Benedict XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), and Catholic Theology (2017), The Culture of the Incarnation: Essays in Catholic Theology (2017), and Portraits of Spiritual Nobility (New York: Angelico Press, 2019).
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Febronianism revisited: A brief and cautionary history

February 1, 2021 Tracey Rowland 11

In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]

The Dispatch

New book by French Dominican skillfully defends Gospels, uniqueness of Christ

October 31, 2019 Tracey Rowland 4

One of the great Catholic publications of 2019 has been the translation by Kenneth Oakes and Francesca Aran Murphy of chunks of Olivier-Thomas Venard OP’s trilogy: Littérature et théologie, La langue de l’ineffable and Pagina […]

Essay

St. Newman’s Idea of a Catholic University: An Alma Mater, not a foundry, mint, or treadmill

October 13, 2019 Tracey Rowland 7

Editor’s note: The following paper was delivered at The Angelicum, Rome, on October 12, 2019 to celebrate the canonization of John Henry Newman. John Henry Newman famously described a Catholic University as ‘an Alma Mater, […]

Essay

Uncle, Father, Jesuit, Professor, Giant

April 18, 2019 Tracey Rowland 7

The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved […]

Essay

“We live in a devastated age”: Reflections from Guardini on being “Lost in Chaos”

April 15, 2019 Tracey Rowland 8

In 1933 Romano Guardini published a small monograph consisting of three lectures around the subject of conscience. It was originally titled Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung – the good, conscience and inner composure. […]

The Dispatch

Christophobia and the ideologues of liberal democracy

February 27, 2017 Tracey Rowland 1

Ryszard Lugutko is not all that well known in Anglophone circles but he is a huge name in Poland.  In the 1980s he was a young academic in Cracow writing books and articles about political […]

Essay

Once deeply Catholic, modern Scotland needs a theological revival

April 28, 2016 Tracey Rowland 0

On a recent trip to Scotland Bishop Gilbert of Aberdeen asked me whether I was familiar with the Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. I had to confess that I had never heard of him. A […]

General

The Instrumentum Laboris: Some highlights and what they will mean for the synod

July 1, 2014 Tracey Rowland 0

Last week the Vatican released the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. This “working document” is a summary of the results of the consultation with the faithful and clergy […]

No Picture

Salvation and Missionary Work after Ad Gentes

November 21, 2013 Tracey Rowland 0

In God is Near Us, Joseph Ratzinger remarked that “in the New Testament as a whole, and in the whole of the tradition of the Church, it has always been clear that God desires everyone […]

No Picture
Essay

Benedict XVI and the End of the “Virtual Council”

April 19, 2013 Tracey Rowland 0

In one of the last acts of his pontificate, Benedict XVI gave an address to the clergy of the Diocese of Rome on the Second Vatican Council.  In the address he drew a distinction between […]

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