Pope Francis has taken ordination of women off the table, so perhaps it is time to put some shared gifts of the spirit and the theology of the sacraments on the table and include women. There are ...

Almost 20 years ago, a Catholic priest friend and I co-taught a week-long seminar called “Doctrines that Divide.” Much of our focus was on the Eucharist. Like Catholics, we Presbyterians are “Real ...

Louis-Marie Chauvet, professor of sacramental theology at the Institut Catholique in Paris, is not widely known this side of the Atlantic. His first work published in the United States, Symbol and ...

Hans Boersma, who teaches theology at Regent College in Vancouver, has written a compelling book on patristic interpretation of scripture that proceeds from a “sacramental sensibility.” He provides a ...

In graduate school, I was a staunch defender of the Eastern approach to initiation. The baptized child receives all at the same time the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist. This ...

Presenter: Kathleen Hughes, R.S.C.J. After identifying some key sacramental insights of Vatican II, assessing the reception of the liturgical reforms in the United States, and concluding that genuine ...

WASHINGTON — Dissenting Catholic groups have called for same-sex “marriage” to be recognized as a sacrament, but Catholic theology has a clear priority: Marriage is God’s creation — and not even the ...

(The Conversation) — Amid controversy over US bishops’ plans to deny Communion to pro-abortion rights Catholics, a scholar of sacramental theology explains the importance of the ritual to members of ...

The shutdown of Catholic liturgical life by the American bishops in the wake of COVID-19 remains unabated, if somewhat modified: while some churches have reopened, far fewer bishops have reinstated ...