“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 ...

When Gary Macy stepped behind the podium at the WOW conference here Saturday he asked why it was there are so few references to women priests in centuries long gone by. Then he answered his own ...

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.” ...

Academics at Christian colleges who believe in evolution (and who believe that doesn't make them any less Christian) have become deeply concerned about the recent move by Northwest Nazarene University ...

Renee Montagne talks to theologian Phyllis Zagano, an advocate of a greater role for women in the Catholic Church, who was just named to Pope Francis' commission on women deacons. A new Vatican ...

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 - ...

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 ...