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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released a document on the Blessed Mother entitled Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People). It is subtitled “Doctrinal...

December 8, 2025, is quickly approaching, a date marking the sixtieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. A budding teenager at the time, I...

As everyone knows, the Second Vatican Council was an extraordinary event, with ramifications not simply for Catholicism but for virtually the entire world. The conciliar theologians knew the tradition...

One of Pope Francis’s favorite theologians, as many will remember, was the early church writer St. Vincent of Lérins. Again and again, Francis cited a few lines from this...

The Catholic Church in the United States has lost a great theologian with the recent death of David Tracy on April 29. The list of academic awards he received...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory has now retired as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. In 2001, Gregory was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The following year,...

Has theology become devalued in the contemporary Catholic Church? I sometimes fear that this is the case—and for the following reasons.   Ever since the implementation of the Charter for...

Christ Brings All Newness: Essays, Reviews, and Reflections by robert p. imbelli, edited with an introduction by richard g. smith word on fire academic, 368 pages, $29.95 In the...

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), the groundbreaking ecumenical initiative founded by Fr. Richard Neuhaus and Chuck Colson in 1994. ECT made quite...

Even the casual reader of Dignitas Infinita (DI), the recent declaration by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will likely be impressed by the 116 footnotes that...

It is old news that Pope Francis has a strong predilection for the thought of St. Vincent of Lérins. Again and again, he has cited one sentence from Vincent’s...

Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. During his life, Dulles was the premier Catholic systematic theologian in the United States. He was...

We must not allow the year 2023 to slip away without commemorating the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio (FR). That great document, surely...

Pope Benedict XVI, after a long and productive life in service to Christ and the Church, has now gone to God. The Church prays for him, invoking the Redeemer’s...

In March, Pope Francis removed Daniel Fernández Torres from his bishopric of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. According to Fernández, his removal came without formal explanation and without due process.  The...