Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Cosmos The In Lost

Home
Catholic

2016-10-14T15:27:14-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The Biblical Weight of Suffering in Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Winning Songwriting

Last updated on: October 14, 2016 at 3:27 pm By Artur Rosman

Bob Dylan is one of my earliest theological influences, therefore it gladdens me to see him awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. His interest in the great religious theme of suffering, as it is presented in the Judeo-Christian tradition, go back to his earliest albums, not only his brief Evangelical period. This has been convincingly argued by Stephen H. Webb–how I wish he were still around to see Bob get the Nobel–in Dylan Redeemed. I first “got” Bob Dylan... Read more

2016-10-12T21:43:51-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Responds to “Catholic Spring” Wikileaks Allegations

Last updated on: October 12, 2016 at 9:43 pm By Guest Contributor

When I woke up this morning, I never thought I would get caught up in WikiLeaks drama. Prominent commentators have used a stolen e-mail thread from political operatives in 2011 (while I was a 21-year-old college student) about my organization, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, in an attempt to impugn both my integrity and my organization’s work. So let’s set the record straight: every day, my colleagues and I work tirelessly to promote the social mission of Pope Francis... Read more

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

news

wikileaks

2016-10-08T19:47:59-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Will Priests For Life Pull Its $445,000 Out of the Trumpster Fire?

Last updated on: October 8, 2016 at 7:47 pm By Guest Contributor

$445,000.00 is nearly half a million dollars. Is Priests for Life budgeting almost half a million dollars for their 2016 election campaign? It would seem so. When you submit the terms “Priests for Life”, “Election”, and “Plan” for a Google search, the first result is Priests for Life’s “Election 2016 Plan of Action, End Abortion and Save America“. Oddly enough, the plan is described as “confidential” – but is neatly set up to be found by anyone interested in what... Read more

2016-09-25T21:23:43-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Reflections of a Priest from India on the Consequences of White Privilege in America

Last updated on: September 25, 2016 at 9:23 pm By Guest Contributor

As I’ve remarked on occasion, I have social media “friends” of all kinds of political and religious backgrounds, though the majority are politically conservative and Roman Catholic. In some circles, it seems, talking about the reality of what is called “white privilege” in American society is treated with anger, derision, or worse. I find this truly puzzling, because, to me, the phenomenon is self-evident, or at least borne out by experience. Acknowledging the subtle and pervasive ways in which our... Read more

2016-09-25T21:23:49-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Damon Linker Answers the Liberal Critics of Trump & the New Nationalism

Last updated on: September 25, 2016 at 9:23 pm By Artur Rosman

Damon Linker, who is best-known for defecting from First Things towards the center-left (you can read about his intellectual journey in this interview I conducted with him), made quite a splash yesterday by daring to question the left’s narrative about what Trump followers represent in his column Liberalism’s Blind Spot: Underlying liberal denigration of the new nationalism — the tendency of progressives to describe it as nothing but “racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia” — is the desire to delegitimize any particularistic attachment... Read more

liberalism's blind spot

new nationalism

news

Politics

2016-09-14T15:55:46-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Benedict XVI Admits to Being an Early Critic of Humanae Vitae in Book-Length Interview

Last updated on: September 14, 2016 at 3:55 pm By Artur Rosman

A religion is only plausible if it tells you what to do with your genitals. Thus, Humanae Vitae, Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical about artificial contraception, is where the Catholic Church forcefully asserted its legitimacy in the modern world. The criticism, especially from American theologians, was swift and very critical. It was documented in books such as Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae. The only recent papal document to be met with similar resistance is Laudato Si. Benedict XVI is generally... Read more

2016-09-03T23:41:44-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Thinker Behind the “Benedict Option” Appears to be Taking a Neo-Marxist Turn

Last updated on: September 3, 2016 at 11:41 pm By Artur Rosman

Rod Dreher has been very generous to this blog throughout the years. Cosmos has been linked on a consistent basis by him. It owes a large chunk of its audience to him. Rod and I have had our disagreements, fallouts, and misunderstandings. We’ve managed to reconcile by the grace of God. I haven’t had a chance to write about his work much, because, well, I haven’t had a chance to write much recently–gainful employment does that to you. However, a... Read more

2016-09-02T11:16:37-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Humility Turns Away the Liturgy Police

Last updated on: September 2, 2016 at 11:16 am By Guest Contributor

Last week, I wrote a reflection on the role of discipline in the Christian life. I concluded with the following: Likewise, each person on the path to the “narrow gate” must follow certain guidelines so as to not get caught in the underbrush or ambushed by wild animals. But how one travels the path is between you and God. I was quite pleased with the piece; it got many social media interactions. But pride goeth before the fall, as they say,... Read more

2016-08-24T23:16:52-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

Last updated on: August 24, 2016 at 11:16 pm By Artur Rosman

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is part of the human condition. Even something as quotidian as eating food is based upon doing violence to plant and animal life. Some secularist ideologues claim to have solved the problem of violence by scapegoating religion. Their argument about the better angels of secularism is based upon the following premises: religion is violent if you get rid of religion then the world will become less... Read more

2016-08-23T15:31:13-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Pokémon is Anti-Christian, but It’s Not Anti-Catholic

Last updated on: August 23, 2016 at 3:31 pm By Artur Rosman

The Pokémon phenomenon is inescapable. I might the only person who hasn’t played the game in my workplace, however, most of my co-workers–Christian, atheist, and everything in between–are avid players. Not that I’m dead set against it. I have so many other commitments that I haven’t had the time to launch the app, which is buried somewhere deep in the interface of my smart phone behind the Liturgy of the Hours, Flipboard, Twitter, and Feedly. Yet, my secondhand exposure is... Read more

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Who said, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him"?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Peter Isaiah David Job

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category #WhyRemainCatholic Abortion Advent Anti-Catholicism Arts Atheism Beauty Benedict XVI Bible Book Review Catholic Cinema Comedy Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Czesław Miłosz Dariusz Karłowicz Devil Easter Eastern Orthodoxy Economics Environment Family Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists Guest Post Hans Urs von Balthasar HHS Mandate History Imagination Interview Islam Jean-Luc Marion John Paul II Judaism Just War Lent Literature Little Sisters of the Poor Liturgy Martyrdom Music News Paganism Patristics Phenomenology Philosophy Pierre Hadot Poetry Poland Pop Culture Pope Francis Poverty Prayer Protestantism Rabelais Race Remi Brague Rene Girard Russia Sam Rocha Science & Religion SCOTUS Secularization Sexual Abuse Sexuality Silence Solidarity Stratford Caldecott Synod14 Terrorism Top 10 Uncategorized Walker Percy War Weakened Edition World War II World Youth Day WYD Krakow

Select a Month July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Catholic