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June 2026

June 07, 2026

The Grammar of Faith: Why Catholicism Needs Metaphysics

For two thousand years, the Catholic Church has been involved in an intriguing and complicated...

March 2026

March 29, 2026

Catholic Sacramental Theology Explained

It may be impossible to overstate the significance of sacraments both theologically and doctrinally. Theologically, sacraments...

March 22, 2026

Schools Of Thought In Catholic Theology

Due to the complexity of its object (God), Catholic theology has given rise to several...

March 08, 2026

Balancing Rationality And Mysticism In Catholic Theology

In any attempt to explore the relationship between God and man, one must be cognizant...

January 2026

January 11, 2026

Images Of God

Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness.” -...

January 04, 2026

The Anonymous Christian

The history of theology in the Catholic Church is somewhat like a massive mosaic intended...

July 2025

July 20, 2025

Catholicism Within the Christian Tradition

The Catholic-Protestant divide is a tragedy that has led to many misunderstandings and a significant...

May 2025

May 25, 2025

Do We Need A Conscience?

What does it mean to be moral, and what is the role of the conscience...

September 2024

September 22, 2024

Mary: A Journey Through Her Life

Excepting Jesus, there is no more influential figure in the Catholic tradition than Mary. Millions...

May 2024

May 26, 2024

Catholic Moral Theology

Immanuel Kant thought religion’s sole value lay in its capacity to provide a moral framework....

January 2024

January 14, 2024

The Devil And Free Will

Perhaps the most famous work of the English artist John Martin is Satan Expelled from...

December 2023

December 03, 2023

Does God Suffer?

From its earliest formulations, Catholic theology has attributed the traits of immutability and impassibility to...

September 2023

September 17, 2023

The Seeds Of The Church

“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” Tertullian famously remarked. Tertullian recognized...

September 10, 2023

The Transfiguration; Significance and Meaning

One of the consequences of the Enlightenment was an effort to reduce religion to a...

July 2023

July 30, 2023

The Four Pillars Of Catholicism

The process of studying a particular thing often entails analysis. To correctly analyze a thing,...

March 2023

March 26, 2023

Missiology

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of...

March 19, 2023

The Simplicity Of God

God is simple. It seems almost blasphemous to write those words, so ingrained is the...

January 2023

January 01, 2023

Does Time And Place Influence The Gospels?

Is the biblical message influenced or even changed based on the milieu in which it...

November 2022

November 27, 2022

On Theology

By no lesser authority than Thomas Aquinas, theology has been called the queen of the...