“Do you find, as an atheist, that you have difficulty defending religious beliefs to your students?” The question came from a professor of metaphysics whose views of reality, I had just confessed to ...

On Feb. 24, the board of trustees at Marymount University, a Catholic university in Arlington, Va., founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, voted unanimously to cut several liberal arts ...

Theologian says Jesus was a 'trickster'--but it's not as offensive as you think "In Jesus, we see a trickster figure, one who respects the beliefs and traditions of real people, yet also questions ...

“Since the object of theology is the Truth which is the living God and His plan for salvation revealed in Jesus Christ, the theologian is called to deepen his own life of faith and continuously unite ...

To hear Cardinal Walter Kasper tell it, he became the pope's point man for reform in the Catholic church thanks to a bit of serendipity, or, if you will, Providence, before anyone knew that Francis ...

(RNS) — Küng paid dearly for his independence, being stripped of his right to teach Catholic theology by St. John Paul II and repeatedly frustrated in his efforts to reform the tradition-bound Vatican ...

Spanish theologian Cristina Inogés, appointed by Pope Francis to participate in the Synod on Synodality, argues in a recently released document that “Christianity should never have become a religion.” ...

Once feminist theologian St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson decided she would retire from teaching at Fordham University, she invited current and former doctoral students, graduate assistants and ...

Here is a Stanley Hauerwas story. Hauerwas was debating a medical researcher who was defending experiments on fetal tissue. “What if it were discovered that fetal tissue were a delicacy?” Hauerwas ...

A German soldier found by Christ in a prisoner of war camp, he became a renowned Christian scholar who taught that “God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.” Jürgen Moltmann, a ...

Interview With Gay Theologian David Berger 'A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual' David Berger, a gay theologian who has written a book about his experiences as a ...