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Oscar Romero’s Theology of Transfiguration

Releasing three of his four pastoral letters on August 6, the patronal feast day of El Salvador, Oscar Romero linked his Transfiguration homilies with his ...

Oncofertility and the Boundaries of Moral Reflection

Advances in medical technology provide regular opportunities to explore theological reflection and magisterial teaching at the border of science and conscience. This article reflects on ...

What Happened at Trento 2010?

From July 24 to 27, 2010, some 600 theological ethicists from nearly 75 countries met in Trento, Italy, under the auspices of Catholic Theological Ethics ...

Economic Recession Work and Solidarity

The note treats ethical issues surrounding the 2008 to 2010 financial crisis and its aftermath, focusing on resources pertinent to Catholic economic-ethical responses. Four key, ...

Clerical and Religious Child Abuse: Ireland and Beyond

The note considers recent theological commentary on the clerical sexual abuse crisis in Ireland and beyond. It examines the nature and extent of the crisis ...

Cardinal Avery Dulles S.J. among the Theologians: A Memorial Reflection

Avery Dulles’ postconciliar theology must be placed historically in the broad context of what he called postcriticism. His models approach to theology, moreover, attempted to ...

The Body of Christ: Amen!: The Expanding Incarnation

The article aims to refresh Christian sensibilities to the bodily character of ecclesial existence. It links Christ’s incarnation with the continuing formation of his Body, ...

Christ’s Human Knowledge: A Conversation with Lonergan and Balthasar

The article explores the contribution of Balthasar and Lonergan to a contemporary understanding of Christ’s human knowledge. It argues methodologically that Lonergan’s account of Christ’s ...

Woman of Many Names: Mary in Orthodox and Catholic Theology

Catholic emphasis on Mary’s role in the Christian story of salvation and on the unique privileges given her by God to accomplish that salvation for ...

Reading the Universe Story Theologically: The Contribution of a Biblical Narrative Imagination

Peter Canisius and the Truly Catholic Augustine

Arguably the most influential theologian in the Latin West, Augustine of Hippo conventionally figures as the greatest ally, after the Bible, of Protestantism in Reformation ...

Catholics and Pentecostals: Troubled History New Initiatives

Catholics and Pentecostals in their various expressions—classical, charismatic, and Neo-Pentecostal—constitute about 75 percent of the total number of Christians today. And Pentecostals continue to grow ...

Caritas in Veritate as a Social Encyclical: A Modest Challenge to Economic Social and Political Institutions

While many elements of Benedict XVI’s Caritas in veritate subscribe to the logic of earlier social encyclicals, the absence of a connection drawn between the ...

Swearing against Modernism: Sacrorum Antistitum (September 1 1910)

The historiography of Modernism has concentrated on the doctrinal issues raised by partisans of reform and their condemnation, to the relative neglect of social and ...

Encountering the Religious Other: Challenges to Rahner’s Transcendental Project

Fruitful interreligious encounter is the meeting of human beings, and calls for a metaphysics, a common humanum in order to proceed to dialogue. Rahner’s transcendental ...

The Theological Problem of Grace and Experience: A Lonerganian Perspective

For Bernard Lonergan and Karl Rahner, grace is a reality that can be not only professed in worship or inferred through metaphysical analysis but also ...

Vatican II–Continuity or Discontinuity? Toward an Ontology of Meaning

The article argues that the debate over continuity/discontinuity at Vatican II is hindered by the descriptive nature of the categories under consideration. To move beyond ...

Vatican II on Revelation–From behind the Scenes

The article presents interventions by certain expert-consultants (periti) just before and during Vatican II’s opening weeks in 1962. Discovering mediocrity in passages of the prepared ...

The Council in Trullo Revisited: Ecumenism and the Canon of the Councils

Although the much-postponed subject of papal primacy in the ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches finally got to a formal start in ...

Evolution Altruism and the Image of God

Responding to a question of Pope John Paul II on what light evolution can throw on creation in the image of God, this article first ...
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