Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like […]
From Dogma und Verkundigung, quoted in Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year (Ignatius Press, 1992): The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It […]
There is a philosophical problem we’ve faced in the West for some time that can be summarized as follows: “In the movement of post-Kantian thought, conceptual knowledge was indeed called into question. For Schleiermacher, the […]
Shortly after the publication of Fiducia Supplicans, a friend asked me how she could reconcile the content of this statement with her conscience. As she is certainly not alone with this question, I have decided […]
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
There’s been a lot of hootin’ an’ hollerin’ over the appointment last week of Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández to the top spot at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. I get it, I […]
Over the past three months, the men’s reading group I’ve helped lead for 19 years has been discussing The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and the Church (Ignatius Press, 2023) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Our […]
In his recent article published in America magazine, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy states that the answer to the question “what paths is the church being called to take in the coming decades?”, should be found […]
Sean Swain Martin argues in his book, American Pope: Scott Hahn and the Rise of Catholic Fundamentalism (Pickwick Publications, 2021), that Scott Hahn, noted Catholic author and longtime professor of biblical theology at Franciscan University […]
During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a piece of advice from veteran Lee May: If you’ve got talent, May told the 21-year-old slugger, fame can’t […]
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