As Theological Shark Week X winds down, I’d like to take a moment to talk about the event of voting itself. Christine McCarthy and Stephen Okey helped us think about voting our conscience and the […]
Category: Theology and Society
A Tale of Two Churches: The 1% Shall Be First and the Religious Shall be Last
Upon arriving in New York, Pope Francis immediately traveled to the center of the city’s ecclesial and civic life for a service of “Vespers with the Clergy, Men and Women Religious” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral […]
From the Editors: News for Fall 2015
Dear Faithful Readers, Happy beginning of a new semester! As modern-day theologians, our lives cycle with the rest of academia, so the whispers of September welcome in new students, new committee meetings, and new graduate […]
Some Thoughts on Grace: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Statement before Receiving the Death Penalty
By Katie Wrisley Shelby On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, before being officially sentenced to death, the surviving perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gave his first public statement in a courtroom peopled by […]
Mouse Traps, Tacos, Bad Plumbing . . . and the Trinity
By Dannis Matteson What do mouse traps, tacos, and bad plumbing have to do with the Trinity? For my husband and me, everything. But before I divulge, let me set the stage. The doctrine of […]
The Forces Between Us
By Lorraine V. Cuddeback The first time I fell in love, it was with Baltimore. I spent four years walking the streets of that city — being sure to know the “safe” places to go. […]
Black Catholic History Month: An Invitation to Remember
November is Black Catholic History Month. This designation stands in its 24th year, named in 1990 by the National Black Catholic Congress of the United States “to celebrate the long history and proud heritage of Black Catholics.” […]
“The Canticle of the Turning”: The Gospel of Luke and Radical Imagination
If I had an opportunity to sit down and chat with one of the four evangelists, I’d pick Luke. I just find his gospel so riveting and his characters so compelling. Any child somewhat familiar […]
Millennials at Work: A New Hope for Catholic Social Teaching
By Conor Kelly Five years ago yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI officially signed the most recent social teaching encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This fact is itself significant because Caritas in Veritate would be seven years old […]
The Fire of the Spirit and the Spirit for the Poor
In the last 75 years, the worldwide Christian Church has seen two movements that have unquestionably transformed the contemporary Christian Church. The first one, the Pentecostal Movement, began in the United States in the first part […]
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