You are critical of the prevailing view among Catholics of their own history and role in the United States. What is the story line of the tradition you call...
Religion
You've taught scripture for virtually all of your adult life. What led you to devote your life to it? When I was growing up, the Bible was not an honored...
Thenaming in 1997 of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux as a "Doctor of the church" by Pope John Paul II caused Catholics around the...
DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON All people are sacred, made in the image and likeness of God. People do not lose dignity because of disability, poverty, age, lack...
How did you end up being both an astronomer and a Jesuit brother? I was a Sputnik kid. I started school the year Sputnik went up, and I was in high school...
One of the most important decisions the bishops at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) made was their refusal to go along with the secrecy that Vatican...
"Judaism," writes Rabbi Lawrence Kushner in his new book, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians(Jewish Lights), "is a...
When it comes to figuring out what the Jesus of Christian faith has to do with the anthropological Jesus studied by historians, Catholics are lucky: They have...
When teaching Bible classes in parishes, I often begin with the question, “When I say ‘characters of the Bible,’ what names come to mind?” The consistency of...
Many gay priests have served and continue to serve our church well. Let's not make them scapegoats for the sins of others. IN OUR CHURCH AND IN THE...
