The works of mercy are the practices that Christian disciples collectively engage to respond to the needs of others. Both the Beatitudes and the works of mercy are our pathways, one inner, one outer, to lead us into fellowship with the poor in spirit.

Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P., wasn't officially a 'peritus' at the Second Vatican Council, but that didn't stop him from having a powerful influence on the council and on church theology for decades afterward.

There is no bigger question for Catholics today than this: Why should anyone become or remain Catholic?

Gerald O'Collins, S.J., the Australian Jesuit theologian who died last week, was a prominent writer in Christology, ecclesiology, spirituality and more in an academic career that spanned seven decades.

In this 1971 article, the late theologian Gerald O’Collins, S.J., treats the search for the “historical Jesus”—and its potential shortcomings and pitfalls.

The intertwined stories of Jacques Maritain and 'Nostra Aetate' underscore the need for Christians, now more than ever, to repudiate and combat antisemitism.