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 ...

One might loosely define tradition as the authoritative and authentic Christian history of theological doctrines and devotional practices. Christianity is fundamentally grounded in the ...

Moments of revelation — those instances in which God speaks to an individual or to a community — tend to be subtle. God prefers to whisper rather than to shout. I think that feelings and intuition are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q You, along with many other religious leaders, use the words, “God wants us to... .” Please tell me how you know what a supernatural being wants? A Good question. The differences between 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 ...

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