Rejection of the church is rooted in (among other things) a fundamental misunderstanding of what the church has actually taught.

Avery Dulles' thousands of students remember him for the clarity of what he taught and wrote as a theologian and teacher. But he was more than that...

Most people just don’t know that their pondering about life, about what really matters, is called theology.

Did Pope Francis depart from Scripture and tradition in declaring the death penalty "inadmissible"? Or was his declaration rooted deeply in both?

Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.

We each have a responsibility to change the game, to treat each other better, particularly when we disagree.