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Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Kerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It's not that Catholicism had never dealt with social ethics [...]

Pope Francis said he knows 'it often annoys people' when he promotes Catholic teaching on social issues like poverty, migration and ecology, but he is going to keep doing so [...]

John F. Kavanaugh, S. J.--teacher, scholar, journalist and priest--died one year ago this month. For years his essays in America shed light on films, Scripture and the ethical and political [...]

Have you ever noticed that almost the whole of the culture war is centred on sexuality? Abortion, same-sex 'marriage' contraception, adultery, pornography, promiscuity, sex-education, divorce, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, even [...]

I RECENTLY MOVED INTO ONE OF THOSE GATED COMMUNITIES where you have to be at least 55 years old to reside. It is within walking distance of a large, vibrant, [...]

On 129 occasions between 1979 and 1984, the late Pope John Paul II shared his reflections on sexuality, marriage, family life, and vocation with his Wednesday audiences at the Vatican. […]

At the end of your new book, Scripture, the Soul of Theology, you make the surprising claim that Vatican II would not have occurred if Pius XII had not issued [...]

In Pope John Paul II's recent apostolic letter on the male priesthood he reiterated church teaching on the exclusion of women from the ministerial priesthood. This letter was no doubt [...]

I JOINED THE SOCIETY of Jesus in 1961 at age 18 because I knew wanted to be a college teacher and I thought God wanted me to be a priest. [...]

A hundred years ago, on Nov. 18, 1893, Pope Leo XIII issued an important encyclical on biblical studies, Providentissimus Deus. Fifty years later Pope Pius XII put out his even [...]

(Prenote: In the May 29, 1993 issue of America, Michael J. Buckley, S.J., professor of theology an Boston College, published a stimulating article entitled 'The Catholic University and its Inherent [...]

HIS ORDINATION CARD depicted St. Dominic at the foot of the cross, beneath which were printed words he thought to be from Tennyson: 'But none of the ransomed ever knew/ [...]

Nineteen ninety-three marks a quarter-century from the tumultuous year of 1968. By any measure, that was a watershed year. In the social and political arenas 1968 was filled with historic [...]

America's Catholic bishops voted recently to require all those who teach theology in Catholic colleges and universities to receive a mandate from them, in effect a license, as a guarantee [...]

Some see legal pitfalls; others urge noncompliance Catholic theology professors attending a meeting of the College Theology Society here grappled with ways to respond to a new requirement that theologians [...]

Bishops will standardize mandatum procedures To seek or not seek a mandatum. That is the question occupying theologians at Catholic colleges and universities across the land this semester. Obtaining a […]

Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati has named four consultants to his committee of bishops charged with developing the U.S. procedures for giving Catholic theologians a mandatum to teach. They [...]

What is happening in theological education today? NCR took that question to two of the newest deans of Catholic theology schools in the United States: Jesuit Fr Thomas Massaro, who [...]

Over the last few months Christopher West, a prolific author and well-known speaker on Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the body," has been criticized by two prominent Catholic speakers. […]

Brushing aside pleas for delay and predictions of acrimony and dissent, U.S. Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly Nov. 16, 1999, to set in motion a plan for certifying professors who teach [...]