Theology
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A synodal table with missing chairs
Canon law is being redrawn to make consultation routine. Lay judges, lay episcopal delegates and compulsory pastoral councils are real gains. The door is open, but left half shut: the lay movements carrying much of the Church’s mission still have no guaranteed seat.
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A rebel at home in Scripture
Leonard Cohen’s faith in song never settled for religious conformity; he reshaped psalms and sacred words to fit his own journey and still found himself reached.
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A golden age and the hidden cost of prosperity
Israel’s greatest king built wealth and power on forced labor and political executions, and his people chose comfort over conscience.
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Can faith welcome what science finds?
Evolution now shapes social and moral thinking, and most churches accept the science while glossing over the challenges it poses.
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Tracking Catholic Eucharistic belief in the Real Presence
Belief climbs sharply among weekly churchgoers and those who rank faith above all else, reaching 88 percent when several markers combine.
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Blowin’ in the wind: Dylan meets an American Pope
In a 1967 song, a dreamer watches Augustine walk among the poor, then realizes with horror that he belongs to the executioners.
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Faith we can touch
The incarnation means the physical world is where God comes to meet us. It isn’t something we have to escape.
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“The Challenge of Peace” modelled synodality before its time
In 1983, Cardinal Bernardin led the US bishops through public drafts and wide listening. That openness remains unusual more than forty years later.
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How much is a human being worth?
Roman executions were staged to strip the condemned of their humanity. A livestreamed firing squad would have repeated that ancient, dehumanising choreography.
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The emerging paradigm of Catholic spirituality and theology
Christianity has always been diverse. Modern research, psychology and philosophy now ask theology to stand on firmer, evidence-based ground.
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