Contemporary moral theologians address a wider scope of ethical issues pertaining to families than did theologians of previous generations. In addition to attending to questions ...

This note, extended into an article to commemorate Vatican II, argues that any study of the council and theological ethics must attend to World War ...

The author discusses the relationship between historical studies and the hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council. He seeks to develop a critical understanding of the ...

The article examines changes in teaching and practice endorsed by Vatican II. What “combination of continuity and discontinuity” (Pope Benedict XVI) shaped those reforms? Several ...

Since Vatican II the Latin American church has come of age to become an autochthonous and distinctive expression of the universal church. The article enlists ...

The centenary of Walter Ong’s birth offers an occasion to reflect on how his research into culture, language, orality and literacy, and communication practices can ...

Both Thomas More and John Henry Newman understood the human subject as a historically situated, responsible, and dynamic being that realizes itself through conscientious moral ...

The average Christian who accepts or rejects purgatory usually views it as a demi-hell set up by divine justice between heaven and hell to punish ...

The author explores John Courtney Murray’s thought on the telos of Catholic higher education. Although best known for his political writings on church and state ...

This response to Kenneth Garcia’s article explores the challenges of “translating” John Courtney Murray when conversation partners no longer depend on shared cultural assumptions. Drawing ...

Few ideas have impacted the church more than reform, but in recent centuries it virtually disappeared from theological discourse. That changed on December 22, 2005, ...

Contemporary proposals regarding an appropriate hermeneutic for interpreting Vatican II vary in their emphasis on three elements: the conciliar process, the conciliar documents, and the ...

The author describes and comments on developments that have taken place since Vatican II with regard to teaching authority. Among subjects exercising such authority he ...

The article outlines and critiques three important arguments advanced by those who hold that the Catholic magisterium teaches that there should be no mission to ...

The author suggests that Gavin D’Costa needs, first, to take seriously the history of the Christian contribution to Jewish suffering, which cannot be parenthesized as ...

Some ambiguity remains in the official Catholic understanding of dialogue and mission, but the basic thrust of Vatican II Catholicism definitely leans toward a nonmissionizing ...

Two very different churchmen, Riccoldo da Montecroce and Nicholas of Cusa, though separated by time and place, were affected by a similar catastrophe: the fall ...

Pius XI called the mutual perfection of spouses “the chief reason and purpose” of marriage, thereby opening the door for a consideration of the virtues ...

The article shows how the role of Peter as the official witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ continues to be neglected by such scholars ...