
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored
After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan…
Read MoreAfter Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan…
Read MoreIn the wake of the startling revelation that well over 200 boys were abused over…
Read MorePope Francis finally dropped the long-expected axe on Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the curia’s…
Read MoreIn September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the…
Read MoreA Franciscan peace activist is removed from public life as a priest for celebrating mass with a woman.
Read MoreEvery bishop knows he has gay priests in the ranks—pretending otherwise is surely as much of a moral issue as, say, same-sex marriage. Gay priests work in dioceses and religious orders as pastors, teachers, administrators, right-hand men, chaplains, liturgists and preachers. The bishops know this and yet few are able to speak with the kind of candor the pope manages on a daily basis.
Read MoreWe tend to assume that interfaith dialogue is automatically a good thing, and that the best way to learn about another religion is to study its texts and its official positions. The Paris trial challenges both.
Read MoreIn a book geared toward the general reader, scholar Anne Norton confronts Islamophobia in the West and argues against the persistent notion that Islam and the West are locked in a cosmic battle.
Read MoreLa Repubblica, “Vatileaks,” and blackmail. Oh my.
Read MoreWhat do you give to the Pope on the occasion of his retirement? I am sure he has more Rolex watches than he needs, and the red shoes he likes are out of my price range. But a new Church would be just the thing to assure him a dignified old age.
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