A few years ago, I heard a woman who had founded a Catholic religious institute give a witness about the history of her vocation and her community. At the end, an attendee asked her: how do you see that you are living the hundredfold that Christ promises those who leave
In 1674, Isaac Newton (1642–1726) informed German theologian Henry Oldenburg that he had “long since determined to concern [himself] no further about ye promotion of Philosophy.”[1] This admission seems strange, given that his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica would be published a decade later in 1687. But again, in 1679, Newton
Reflection on the problem of suffering and mercy played an important role both in the teaching of John Paul II and in the philosophy of Józef Tischner. The thought of both centered on the human being: John Paul II focused on man and his acts, Tischner on man in the
One hundred years ago, Fr. Luigi Sturzo was settling down in London. He had departed Rome two weeks earlier, on October 25, 1924. Five years earlier, in 1919, he had founded and led the Partito Popolare Italiano, which drew inspiration from the Catholic Church’s social teachings—particularly Rerum Novarum—and decades of Catholic
Christianity is all about the human response of faith, or so popular teaching and perception would have us believe. Undeniably, faith is essential to Christianity—right? Or is it? I would argue that like rot in an apple, much of the malaise in contemporary Christianity stems from a rotten core. The
I had the privilege of recruiting, and then appointing, Fr. Gustavo to the Department of Theology here at the University of Notre Dame in 2001. I had the privilege of recruiting and appointing many great theologians, far surpassing my own stature or ability, but Fr. Gustavo was certainly by any
Whether through serendipity or the gentle hand of divine providence, I watched the two movies that decisively shaped my theological imagination on the same day in June 1995. It was the end of my first year at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and we were allowed to go