Andrea Bartoli is currently director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He also directs…
Catholicism
John Haught’s theology of evolution
At the excellent evolution/creationism-junkie blog The Sensuous Curmudgeon, there's an announcement about Making Sense of Evolution, the new book by…
Catholics argue about waterboarding
In the first New York Times Beliefs column since the departure of Peter Steinfels, Mark Oppenheimer discusses the outrage among…
The pope’s digital turn
Elizabeth Drescher, at Religion Dispatches, discusses the pope's recent call for priests to get savvy with online media. She questions…
Arsenic-laced communion wafer killed father of modern philosophy?
A new book by the german philosopher Theodor Ebert makes the claim that "Descartes died not through natural causes but…
The uncertain future of Catholic dissent
After radical Catholic theologian Mary Daly's death last month, and that of Edward Schillebeeckx in December, Charlotte Allen wonders in…
Pope: blog for God
Philip Pullella of Reuters reports that, for the Catholic Church's World Day of Communications, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged clergy to…
Schillebeeckx passes
In The New York Times, Peter Steinfels eulogizes Edward Schillebeeckx—(pronounced SKIL-uh-bakes)—one of the architects of the Second Vatican Council, which…
The Vatican on The Simpsons
In The Christian Science Monitor, Nick Squires asks why L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, has made a distinct turn…
Mary Daly’s passing
The pioneering, post-Catholic feminist theologian Mary Daly died on January 3rd at the age of 81.