When shared in the frame of solidarity, our stories reveal the matrices of power that require unmaking; they also provide…
Telling a story of death and its disclosures
Catholicism
Presence and contagion
If scholars define Catholicism by its sacramentality, its commitment to an embodied encounter with the divine in real time, what…
Edith Stein and the experience of God
Edith Stein (1891–1942), later Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was an original phenomenologist and an early student of Edmund…
Experience between the secular and the divine
The strange and often contradictory ways that phenomenology has been woven into and through diverse religious traditions are the subject…
Is Europe Christian?—A reply
I thank the contributors for expanding the conversation with enriching perspectives. Of course, my book has its own limitations in…
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account…
Encounters on shifting ground
Part of the tragedy is that, although some of the underlying abuse took place decades ago, efforts at comprehensive accounts,…
A matter of justice, not merely chastity
How will the encounter with the hard edges of American law reshape Catholic doctrine on sexual morality, which governs not…
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…
Refashioning gender and modern visual theology
The visual and material repertoire of Heavenly Bodies has also been fundamentally shaped by the role of allegory in Catholic…