A true spirituality of sex is fundamentally contemplative: a long, loving look at the......
From general to really specific, here are eleven Pope Francis facts!...
The cultural expressions of ritual can sometimes overshadow what is fundamentally an......
The new working document (Instrumentum Laboris) that anticipates the 2015 Vatican synod......
As we consider the new working document (Instrumentum Laboris) anticipating the synod,......
A culture that fosters priestly vocations is also likely to foster discernment to all......
The annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America kindled big questions......
The Nicene Creed is a revelation of the Trinity and a call to love....
Our good intentions fall short when we get in the way of the big picture....
Our hope for this kingdom is what stirs us toward anything that is good and noble....
We say it in the Creed, but what does it mean?...
In conquering death Jesus has conquered fear of all the terrible consequences we imagine......
What did the Old Testament say about the resurrection of Christ?...
Entering into the small deaths of ordinary human suffering is rather like surfing a......
Something strange is going on here. God was born. God...died?...
Why for our sake? To free us from false desire and the violence that grows from it....
Mary cooperates in the work of the incarnation; she is an active participant in bringing......
He became one of us in order that he might save us....
What will a church look like that dedicates its energies to serving Christ's poor? My......
God can never be absent from the world any more than an artist can be absent from her......
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made,......
If you think Trinitarian formulae too much like insider-baseball, here is the breakdown....
In professing that I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, I profess a love that is born in......
Discover your real self, then give it away....
The work of two modern scientists suggests a way forward in considering how we think......
Why do Christians today continue to call God "Father," especially in light of feminist......
Theologian Tim Muldoon on faith as an act of the intelligence....
Is it possible that eschewing temporary experiences of sex in favor of a lifelong......
Like the ecological movement, the movement against contraception is rooted in a vision......
A contraceptive society cheapens sex, serves the interests of bad men, and ultimately......
Who loses the most when sexual transactions are cheap and abundant? Women....
We are having more orgasms, but we are losing the ability to love each other in ways......
We pray not because we think it's a good idea, but because prayer works. We don't......
This is the myth of all myths: that people could use each other and still remember what......
Abortion is an interruption of the potential for love....
Liturgy challenges us to see the world as the place where God's kingdom is unfolding......
Our pressing moral and political issues are all rooted in the way we understand freedom.......
Sexual Revolution 2.0 must be rooted in the truth of persons and not the cravings of......
The Vatican's Note on economics cites "the primacy of being over having and of ethics......
Both Slutwalk and OWS idiots highlight the need for institutional commitments to......
We may be having lots of great (for now) sex, but our relationships are terrible.......
Madison Avenue is playing us all, but the ancients understood that if you reclaim the......
The safest moral course demands strong prohibitions against violations of human life,......
Catholic faith flourishes not because of historical and cultural momentum, but because......
Both faith and sexual desire arise from places in the heart that can neither be named......
To remember the dead is to acknowledge the coexistence of pain and love. ...
As classes resume, a look at the foundational question of every good society: what is......
Too often in the West, it takes a catastrophe to get us thinking about how much we need......
No Marx, no Nietzsche, no Freud can theorize his way into the hearts of young people the......
In our pilgrimage to World Youth Day, we seek a deeper and a greater hope -- one that......
How to "ensure equality" is the wrong question. The right question is "How can we ensure......
Sex among human beings is mostly imagination and only partly biology, so the way we......
Sex is never a private issue. When people believe that intimacy has no implication for......
Exploring the authentic discernment of desire means recognizing that not all kinds of......
In honor of the U.S. Independence Day, an encyclical challenges mature Catholics to......
Christians must be part of the legal argument about gay marriage. But we must do it by......
What makes college life today so depressing for many is not just the drinking and the......
Ten important questions of politicians that demand attention from Catholics, and......
Hearing "no" from the Church can feel like a kind of violence . . . The paradox and......
Saint-Exupery wrote: "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking......
Imagine, for a moment, scientists inventing the Perfect Diet Pill that enabled people to......
On gay marriage, Christians may have to look to scripture and Gamaliel's advice,......
For Catholics, the key opposition is not to homosexuality, but to the social acceptance......
Where Did Osama Go After Death? I prefer to think of his fate in Dantean terms: in......
Two historic events of the past week, namely the royal wedding and the beatification of......
In the new dawn of the Risen Christ, our past enthrallments are shown as empty.......
There is nothing more radical than a committed Christian applying thoughtfulness and......
The death and resurrection of God is a mystery so impossible it can only be true.......
Sarah's parents want Sarah and Tobiah to have sex. They want Sarah to be free of her......
Clearly some people do create gods in their image, but in the writer's experience, God......
The man of sorrow beckons: yes, suffering and death are real and they hurt, but they are......
"Of Gods and Men" manages to manages to show that, more than religion, the thirst for......
Ours is indeed a strange way, but only because the world we live in is strange. Sanity......
What if tsunamis are a reminder that human beings really must recognize that our lives......
Fasting from technology throughout the whole of Lent might be daunting, but could you do......
If sex is a low-trading commodity, society is diminished. There's a massive, gaping hole......
The desire for human freedom is written into the human heart, and it is a catalyst for......
Catholic theologian Tim Muldoon responds to David French on the "faltering" of......
Seeking to satisfy a desire may be the beginning of love, but real love grows only when......
The newly-installed president of the Catholic University of America defends Catholic......
The Super Bowl is only about "men who are good at throwing and catching balls and......
Theologian Tim Muldoon considers the social mindsets and cultural understandings that......
The key question is why do we care about each other in the first place? Why do we......
The great challenge will be to name the extremist elements of our traditions and to draw......
Understanding "God with us" means basing a faith not naively on the stories themselves,......
Silence is, therefore, a primordial act of faith, a willingness to suspend disbelief for......
Only where faith is allowed to thrive can it mature, enter into dialogue with others,......
IVF represents a false promise: it does not heal, nor does it serve the greater good of......
All art draws meaning from the fact that it is embedded within a long conversation about......
My invitation to fellow Christians, to Jews, to Muslims, to people of other faiths, and......
If culture is about real community, then, there is a certain theology here, a certain......
Tomorrow's Catholic Church will be a communion of mystics who see their task as rooted......
It's time for a bigger message, a more hopeful message, a message that invites people to......