“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 ...

BERN, Switzerland — The influential and controversial Swiss theologian Hans Küng died Tuesday at the age of 93. Küng served as a theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council but repeatedly ...

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 ...

Theologians from across the U.S. gathered here Sept. 23-24 for a conference celebrating the legacy of Richard Gaillardetz, one of the country's foremost experts on the exercise of authority in the ...

(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 ...

Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian and Australian Catholic priest told delegates as the assembly’s final week kicked ...

The Pontifical Academy for Life has published an interview with a theologian who says Catholic teaching on contraception is open for “theological discussion, within the Church, and even the ...

Speaking at the Women’s Ordination Worldwide conference Saturday, British theologian Tina Beattie said sharp traditional distinctions between male and female that formed traditional Catholic theology ...

For Inogés, with the Synod of Synodality 'the time has come for the possibility of beginning to give shape to the conciliar dream of Vatican II.' Spanish theologian Cristina Inogés is among those ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with theologian Eboni Marshall-Turman of Yale Divinity School about the message of Christmas this year. * This month on our program, we've been looking at December holidays - ...