Reflection on the problem of suffering and mercy played an important role both in the teaching of John Paul II …
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Luigi Sturzo’s Lessons for American Christianity
One hundred years ago, Fr. Luigi Sturzo was settling down in London. He had departed Rome two weeks earlier, on …
The Challenges Facing Global Catholic Higher Education
You would expect a good deal of diversity at a gathering of global higher education institutions, especially when said institutions …
Salvation by Allegiance Alone: What Faith Is Not
Christianity is all about the human response of faith, or so popular teaching and perception would have us believe. Undeniably, …
Singapore Revisited: The All Religions Controversy in Historical Context
Around the year 780 the patriarch of the East Syrian Church, Timothy, went to the imperial palace in Baghdad and …
Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez In Memoriam: A Brief Tribute
I had the privilege of recruiting, and then appointing, Fr. Gustavo to the Department of Theology here at the University …
The Sacred Heart of the New Encyclical
When the beloved disciple reclined his head upon the breast of the Savior (John 13:23), he heard the beats of …
The Exorcist: Pedagogy of the Possessed
Whether through serendipity or the gentle hand of divine providence, I watched the two movies that decisively shaped my theological …
Brief Candle: The Saint’s Life as Biblical Illumination
In a thirteenth-century manuscript of uncertain provenance, a historiated initial for Psalm 26 shows a crowned King David within the …
Medjugorje and the Desire for a Wilder Catholicism
I have long desired a wilder Catholicism—bygone, primitive, a bit off-kilter. What I have wanted, prayed for, and preached in …