COMMENTARY: The only true metric for the authentic exercise of ecclesial authority is Christological — grounded in the cross ...
There is much talk these days about the concept of the “development of doctrine” in the Church. The topic is a complex one and its various nuances cannot be adequately dealt with in a short essay.
The most intelligible expression of the doctrine of the Church is found in the symbolic words of the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe … in the holy, catholic Church.…” Such expression in the form of a ...
Five members of the College of Cardinals have joint-authored a book defending Church doctrine regarding divorced and remarried Catholics, affirming that it is the most merciful approach. Set to be ...
What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...
A program for a Mass opening the synod process in the Diocese of Camden, N.J., is seen at St. Agnes Church of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Blackwood, N.J., Oct. 17, 2021. (Credit: Dave ...
The Evangelical Covenant Church became the latest Protestant denomination in the United States to repudiate the doctrine of discovery, the theological justification that allowed the discovery and ...
The Supreme Court Should Affirm That Schools Cannot Usurp Parental Rights This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—November 7 Judges Need to Know What Time It Is — Time to Go Senior This Day in Liberal ...
After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123-53, ...
Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Attention now turns to what vision the first U.S. pope ...
The church has moved to dismiss the case because of the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine—a legal principle rooted in the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause that limits secular courts’ authority ...
It belongs to the nature of Christian theology that all of its questions have a practical, vital character. In the trinitarian and Christological controversies which accompanied the decline of the ...