In his textbook of moral theology, Henry Davis, an English Jesuit theologian, wrote that of all the principles of moral theology, the principle of material cooperation is the most difficult to apply. The principle is used to analyze the contribution one makes or the assistance one gives to the wrong

“Students who understood very little of his lectures told me that they attended because they ‘felt better’ about themselves in his presence. ‘This is a professor to whom I can confess,’ one said.”

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has suffered cardiac arrest in recent decades.

Why and how did the celibate state became a requirement for ordination?

I used to think it was arrogant of the church not explicitly to include symbols from popular media culture in liturgy.

Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.