In the fraught history of Jewish-Christian relations, Protestants and Catholics developed different responses to supercessionism, a legacy that must be confronted
The Jesuit theologian has recently come under fire for his supposed racism and support of eugenics; but great religious thinkers must be read with care and precision
Adequately “interpreting miracles” requires more than biblical exegesis. It demands a coherent and consistent construal of reality, which modernity cannot provide
A new translation of The Enneads, the third-century cosmological poem by Plotinus, is likely to remain the definitive critical edition in English for years to come
Rather than further controversy over nomenclature, the church needs a theology adequate to the current scientific understanding of sexuality and gender
If the church wants to help laypeople make informed decisions about their reproductive choices, it needs to listen more deeply to their concrete experiences
After reading news of the lawsuits brought against the Diocese of Fairbanks and the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus, I left the church for good.
One thing our contributors agree on is that the question of belonging to the church is not a trivial one; the days of Catholicism by default are behind us
A new book examines the origins of the pope-centered church, in which we assume that the bishop of Rome writes encyclicals, convokes councils, and declares saints
The work of the twentieth-century Jesuit theologian provides a theological critique of ethno-nationalism, and serves as a model for resisting racism today
Fifty years ago, the “universality” in Catholic ethics meant absorption into the Roman way of viewing things; a conference in Sarajevo modeled another way
Unless we can find a way to defend a non-ableist and non-ageist conception of human dignity, we won’t have the moral resources to resist infanticide’s normalization
