A few years ago, when I was finishing my doctorate in moral theology at a pontifical university in Rome, a theologian read my research. After his review, he asked me, “I noticed you quoted Paul VI’s ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The debate over how God reveals himself was a central part of Vatican II and continues to nourish the Church. A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, ...

What was the most important document to come out of the Second Vatican Council? Which will be the most significant in the decades ahead? Some Roman Catholic theologians are said to give that ...

The relationship between Scripture and tradition is a question as acute today as ever. The sixteenth century by no means settled the issue, decisive and significant though the problem was at that time ...

Nestled in the gospels is a short passage that can easily be skipped over and Christians call it “the Transfiguration”. It is when Jesus invited three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up a ...

On Friday, I began my review of Jesuit Fr. Jared Wicks' critically important book Investigating Vatican II: Its Theologians, Ecumenical Turn and Biblical Commitment, and I examined the part of the ...

For nearly 2,000 years, each succeeding generation of Christians has tried to puzzle out whether the Book of Revelation's riddles and symbols has meant its own time was the end of time. Over the past ...

Not so long ago, the phrase “control of the narrative” was meaningless. Today, it is viewed as a fundamental principle of political, cultural and even religious life. Who sets the parameters of the ...

CHRISTMAS is at the heart of the Church’s liturgical life today but long ago, there was a time when Epiphany held precedence. Epiphany was a catch-all feast in the early Church, which honoured all the ...

Last week, I was at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, for a research colloquium on the study of religion in everyday life. The meeting was one in a multi-part set of colloquia, from last fall through ...