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, ...

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks. It is titled “Evangelicals Divided” and concerns recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging Buchdahl debuts with an affecting account of becoming the first ordained Asian American rabbi. Born in 1972 to a Jewish ...