Investigating American nuns
In Commonweal Magazine, Sister X, a religious sister for more than thirty years, writes anonymously about the current investigation of American nuns by the Vatican: The theological worldview of women...
View ArticleThe Vatican on The Simpsons
In The Christian Science Monitor, Nick Squires asks why L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, has made a distinct turn towards covering events in pop culture: Founded in 1861 as the...
View Article“The Year of the Abusive Priest”
Amid the maelstrom of reportage surrounding the Vatican’s meiotic response to recent revelations of further sexual abuses in various arms of the Church, Anthea Butler offers a sharp reproof of Pope...
View ArticleSeattle-area nuns investigated for “feminism”?
In light of the bad press that the Catholic Church has been receiving lately regarding the cover-up of sexual abuse cases, this report from KUOW, the local NPR affiliate in Seattle, that three...
View ArticleControversy over crimes against the Church
A day after the Vatican issued a new document revising the types of crimes one can commit against the Catholic Church—crimes against morality, the sacraments, and faith—the Church is once again on the...
View ArticleAlternative Catholic churches in Belgium
The New York Times features an article about a grassroots movement in Belgium and the Netherlands “that defies centuries of Roman Catholic Church doctrine by worshiping and sharing communion without a...
View ArticleThe Vatican and the Bolivarian revolution
Last month, Wikileaks released a confidential 2005 U.S. embassy cable that provides an inside perspective on the Vatican’s views of Latin America’s leftward drift in recent years following the election...
View ArticleReligious freedom between truth and tactic
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition includes a number of notable Americans, like Charles...
View ArticleMary’s voice
In the wake of controversy over the Vatican’s recent rebuke of American nuns’ activities and announcement of plans to reorganize the Leadership Council of Women Religious, Lisa Miller urges the Church...
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI resigns
In a surprising announcement, Pope Benedict XVI stated on Monday that would resign at the end of the month. The declaration in part reads: I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three...
View ArticleHabemus Papam: Pope Francis Roundup
On March 13, 2013, after five rounds of voting, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was selected as pope, making him the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first non-European pope in...
View ArticleThe Vatican Spring?
The retirement of Pope Benedict XVI and the subsequent elevation of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the throne of St. Peter involves a number of “firsts” for the Catholic Church: the first papal retirement...
View ArticleA changing papacy?
On December 11, Time Magazine named Pope Francis its 2013 “Person of the Year.” The award, according to Time, seeks to honor the person or group who, “for better or for worse,” has most influenced the...
View ArticleA “pastoral earthquake” in Rome?
On October 13th, the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, an assembly convened by Pope Francis, released a relatio post disceptationem—a snapshot of the discussion thus far—that has triggered...
View ArticleThe Protestant Reformation and human rights
On May 3, 2017 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, a daylong conference was held to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The conference was supported by the Committee for the...
View ArticleOn the advantage and disadvantage of history for life
Gallery View, Late Gothic Hall.Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art In the late nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche published his ruminations “On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for...
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