An interview with Sr. Elizabeth McAlister from 1971, co-founder of Jonah House in Baltimore and member of the “Harrisburg Seven” group of anti-war activists
How media shunned Eastern Orthodox leaders visiting refugees with the pope; Which title Francis prefers; Why U.S. bishops fired Catholic News Service editor-in-chief
Fleming Rutledge probes “the strange new world of the Bible” to its mysterious and scandalous depth in the crucifixion of God’s son, and diagnoses our deepest need.
Word is Pope Francis will visit Turkey a second time; Jesuit-run Vatican Radio is merging with non-Jesuit CTV; First events for Jubilee Year were not “jubilant.”
Before the “Declaration on Religious Freedom” was created, church leaders warned that embracing religious freedom would betray the church’s doctrinal heritage.
Jack Mulder seeks to “explain why the Catholic story captivated, and still captivates” so as to enhance Christian dialogue. He succeeds in only one of those aims.
Why did a text so significant to the history of Catholicism get such a muted reception in Protestant thought and practice? Look to early commentaries for answers.
There is no one Orthodox Christian theology of marriage. And as to any universal rules about divorce and remarriage: In the Orthodox context, “it depends.”
Frederica Mathewes-Green on Eastern Orthodoxy; Brian E. Daley and Paul Kolbert on Psalm interpretations, Philip Jenkins on lost gospels; James O’Donnell on pagans
Mathewes-Green, a convert from the Episcopal tradition, focuses on Orthodoxy as a path to God and uses the actions and prayers of the liturgy as a basis for theology
Francis said though it’s impossible to “cancel out” faults of the past, this should not “continue to contaminate” relations with various other Christian communities.
In Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, traditionalists disagree with Pope Francis’s “polyhedron ecumenism”; In the U.S. they highlight the faults of married deacons.
Considering how religiously diverse and culturally cosmopolitan its cities were before WWI, few could have foreseen today’s calamity for the Middle Eastern region.
Vatican translators edit piety into pope’s speeches; Francis plans ‘twelve big gestures to demonstrate God’s mercy’ for Jubilee Year; More on ‘Vatileaks II’ scandal.
What Pope Francis is doing during his first trip to Africa, despite security threats; who among the cardinals thinks the pope is “wobbly” on church teaching, again.
Pope sows “confusion” by inviting Muslims take part in upcoming Jubilee Year, giving a Eucharistic chalice to a Lutheran pastor, and remaining the Bishop of Rome.
Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics was debated, and dismissed, at Vatican II. Fifty years later, the debate continues, but with a difference.
Set on present day Staten Island Eddie Joyce’s ‘Small Mercies’ traces the effect of 9/11 on the families of people living in “the servants’ quarters of New York.”
In Hebron I learned that the facts on the ground in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict tell a story Americans intent on “international diplomacy” don’t want to hear.
The Vatican killed all interest in World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, but Francis let that go to outflank various groups that oppose his other initiatives
When the priest said “The Mass is ended, alleluia,” she burst out laughing. As a guest at Mass, she sensed the beauty of Catholic worship, and also its strangeness.
Following the Orthodox Church, Francis announces World Day of Prayer’s theme; U.S. Bishops don’t. Why is Francis silent about mob’s “Godfather-like” funeral in Rome?
Biographer Randy Boyagoda paints Richard John Neuhaus as an unusually ambitious and politically engaged priest as public intellectual—but is his narrative too tidy?
Whether or not U.S. support for LGBT rights goes beyond the rhetorical, societies still viewing themselves as “under God” will bridle at this sudden turn about.
Francis’s week: talking church reform with cardinals and peace with Vladimir Putin. And saints’ bodies are en route to Rome. Is Francis reviving medieval devotions?
A preview of upcoming papal visits at home, abroad and with Italian protestants. And the press turns Francis’s list of “attacks on life” into an abortion debate.
Unlike past Eurocentric taxonomies of world religions, the latest Norton anthology aims to let six major, living, international religions speak...in their own words.
Argentine Archbishop predicts “the people of God” will support Francis’s changes long after he’s dead—and traditionalists cry schism while non-Catholics convert.
Tight-lipped officials reveal details of Jubilee year. Serra’s canonization is almost complete. And for the first time, a woman bishop visits the Apostolic Palace.
The pro-British kings archeologist-turned-spy-turned-colonel T.E. Lawrence helped establish in Arabia, Iraq, and Transjordan made “Arab unity” a “madman’s notion.”
Kevin Kruse convincingly claims that the association of patriotism with Christianity comes from a libertarian reaction in American business to the New Deal.
In exposing Pope Francis’s accomplishments, Austen Ivereigh presents “the concrete Catholic thing” as something that has the power to create true solidarity.
Since 1960, the number of interfaith marriages in the U.S. has more than doubled. Do couples considering marriage underestimate the significance of religion?
