“Now a certain kind of scientist says / the weather in various parts of the world / is growing exhausted and just wants to lie down / for a nap”

Academic theology needs the church as much as the church needs theology

The latest book from the philosopher Daniel Dennett is a work of tremendous ambition

How, despite its political and cultural travails, Ireland earned an outsized role in making the modern imagination

Patricia Hampl expounds on the value of a certain kind of psychic space, which she refers to as “leisure”

It’s easy to assume that bishops who transferred priests accused of abuse were doing it to avoid scandal. But it’s also possible that they were like me

New historical perspectives on how church’s stance toward the modern world changed (and didn’t)

Re-examining the role of faith in the 2016 election

However the Supreme Court rules on Trump’s ban on migration from Muslim nations, the USCCB’s brief stakes out an authentic Catholic position on Islam