The diverse challenges of a struggling world need local solutions from a flexible church. Among the theologians of the Second Vatican Council, the name of...
Theology
"For a child has been born for us, a son given to us… he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." These...
When you whispered a prayer this morning while sipping your coffee and eating your toast, to whom exactly did you pray? An old man with a beard somewhere...
Every Sunday many Catholics mumble their way through the recitation of what we believe. Doesn't the Creed deserve to be proclaimed with a little more gusto...
Could you put that in layman’s terms, please? “With pleasure,” says Richard R. Gaillardetz, author of By What Authority? A Primer on Scripture, the...
For most Catholics marriage is their path to holiness, says this expert. The church could-and should-do more to help them on their way. If you ask Mary...
A group of Christians gathers at the Nevada test site to witness against the folly of nuclear weapons. In their prayers, before some of them are arrested, they...
Carl Sagan has been described as America’s “most effective salesman of science.” A colleague at Cornell University, where Sagan is professor of astronomy and...
This article appeared in the September 1968 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 34, No. 5, pages 21-24). An interview with theologian Mary Daly Dr. Mary Daly is a...