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    How cosmology can enrich religious life

 

Sr. Laurie Brink, O.P., Professor of New Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Union

 

May 19, 2023

    Does God have a gender?

 

Sr. Barbara E. Reid, O.P., President, Catholic Theological Union

 

March 15, 2023

    Multifaith community mobilizes to preserve creation ahead of COP15 biodiversity summit

 

John T. Pawlikowski, OSM –  Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics

 

December 6, 2022

    Passionist Fr. Donald Senior was a true friend, committed to mission

 

Sr. Barbara Reid, OP –  President, Catholic Theological Union

 

December 5, 2022

    Catholics must embrace anti-racist discipleship and practice

 

Kevin Considine –  Director, Robert J Schreiter, CPPS Institute for Precious Blood Spirituality Adjunct Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology

 

August 2, 2022

    Rev. Donald Senior dead at 82; headed Catholic Theological Union

 

Mitch Dudek, Staff reporter

 

November 9, 2022

    Cold Stats, Complicated Stories – Baseball on the field is never ‘context-neutral’

 

Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM John Duns Scotus Chair of Franciscan Spirituality Professor of Christian Spirituality

 

August 2, 2022

    Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous Canadians opened door to reconciliation

 

Kevin Considine –  Director, Robert J Schreiter, CPPS Institute for Precious Blood Spirituality Adjunct Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology

 

August 2, 2022

    The books U.S. Catholic writers have enjoyed this month, including “Who’s Black and Why?”

 

Kevin Considine –  Director, Robert J Schreiter, CPPS Institute for Precious Blood Spirituality Adjunct Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology

 

July 28, 2022

    Scholars to address interpreting Scripture through the Church at Summer Scripture Conference

 

June 6, 2022

One of the conference’s faculty speakers

Father Donald Senior, C.P., President Emeritus, Chancellor and Professor, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago

   When a celebrity becomes a bishop: Will Barron set aside Word on Fire for his new diocese?

 

June 3, 2022

 – Dr. Steven P. Millies

    Professor of public theology and director of the Bernardin Center

    at Catholic Theological Union

 

Rev. Ed Foley’s interview with the Miracle Hunter

 
July 28, 2021

 – Rev, Ed Foley, Capuchin

The Catholic Church and the Role of Women in Church Leadership

April 8, 2021

 – Sr. Barbara Reid, Op and C. Vanessa White, DMin

 

Local professor receives grant for project on science and homiletics

March 24, 2021

 – Edward Foley, Capuchin

 

Could President Biden’s Catholic Faith Be a Tool for Healing America?

 

February 1, 2021

 – Steven P. Millies, PhD, Director, Bernardin Center

 

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Video Reflection

February 7, 2021

 – Dr. Kimberly Lymore, MDiv ’03

 

The Bishops Could Learn a lot from Sr. Oscar Romero

 
February 4, 2021

 – Rev. Daniel Horan, OFM

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Video Reflection

January 31, 2021

 – Christina Zaker, DMin ’12

 

Béisbol, Baseball and Bad Hombres’

 

January 27, 2021

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández

 

US Government Sees Wave of Catholic Leaders

January 24, 2021

 – Steven P. Millies, PhD, Director, Bernardin Center

 

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Video Reflection

January 24, 2021

 – Sr. Mumbi Kigutha, CPPS, MA ’19

 

The church teaches that purpose of government is the common good. Period.
 
January 20, 2021

 – Rev. Daniel Horan, OFM

Spiritual Practices and the Role of Catholic Faith in Public Life

 
January 20, 2021

 – – Steven P. Millies, PhD, Director, Bernardin Center

Joe Biden’s very Catholic Cabinet
 
January 19, 2021

 – – Steven P. Millies, PhD, Director, Bernardin Center

The Baptism of the Lord – Video Reflection

January 10, 2021

 – Rachelle Kramer, DMin ’20

 

Turn to St. Angela of Foligno for spiritual guidance in the new year
 
January 6, 2021

 – Rev. Daniel Horan, OFM

Christmas is about celebrating the humanity of God
 
December 23, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel Horan, OFM

Biden administration’s climate agenda reflects spirit of Laudato Si’
 
December 9, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel Horan, OFM

Documentary ‘maɬni’ is a meditative immersion in Chinook Indian worldview
 
December 8, 2020

 – Bro. Antonio D. Sison, CPPS

CTU names first woman president: Dominican Sr. Barbara Reid
 
November 21, 2020

 – by Soli Salgado

The dead and the living deserve better than rushed reconciliation
 
November 18, 2020

 – by Carmen Nanko-Fernández

The audacious return of hope

 

November 11, 2020

 – Dan Horan, OFM

Australian bishops get it right on mental health

 

October 28, 2020

 – Dan Horan, OFM

About That Title…What Francis Might Mean by ‘Fratelli Tutti’

September 24, 2020

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández

 

‘It is what it is.’ The Assumption says no!

 

August 15, 2020

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández

The importance and challenge of doing nothing

August 5, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

CTU In the Media

U.S. Catholic’ welcomes new editor-in-chief

June 30, 2020

 – U.S. Catholic

 

 

To maintain her calm, this Catholic sister tweets prayers to @POTUS

June 26, 2020

 – U.S. Catholic & Sr. Susan Francois, CSJP MA ’15

 

 

Lament and hope go hand in hand

June 26, 2020

 – Sr. Mumbi Kigutha, CPPS

 

Priestly jubilees: Celebrating lives in service to the Church

June 25, 2020

 – The Catholic Spirit

The truth about so-called ‘gender ideology’

June 24, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

We breathe together

June 12, 2020

 – Arturo J. Bañuelas, M.T. Dávila, Miguel H. Díaz, Carmen Nanko-Fernández

 

I can’t breathe because God can’t breathe

June 11, 2020

 – Anne Arabome

 

How to seek Jesus amid COVID-19

June 11, 2020

 – Rev. Ferdinand Okorie, CMF

 

 

I can’t breathe because God can’t breathe

June 10, 2020

 – Sr. Anne Arabome, SSS, DMin ’11

Rev Prof Mark R. Francis to speak at ACU online public lecture

June 10, 2020

 – Catholic Outlook

 

When will the US bishops address the evil of systemic racism head-on?

June 10, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

¿Dios Bendiga Whose América? Resisting the Ritual Theologizing of Nation

June 5, 2020

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology

 

 

Pentecost Sunday

May 31, 2020

 – C. Vanessa White, DMin

 

If COVID-19 frightens you, you should be terrified by climate change

May 27, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

Editorial independence in Catholic media is critical

May 21, 2020

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ offers hope-inspiring water

May 16, 2020

 – Bro. Antonio D. Sison, CPPS

 

Naming the dehumanizing agenda of some Christians

May 13, 2020

 – NRev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

Theologians concerned over bishops’ plans for 10-person pandemic Masses

May 12, 2020

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

Cardinal Dolan’s public flattery of Trump forgets a few things

May 8, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, PhD

 

All mothers stand at the cross with Mary

May 8, 2020

 – Sr. Laurie Brink, OP

 

 

US Catholic magazine unpublishes two articles critical of Cardinal Dolan

May 7, 2020

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

We are suffering a crisis of imagination in the church and world

April 29, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

‘God makes a way’: African American parishes respond to COVID-19 disparity

April 29, 2020

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

Interreligious Relations Must Become Imperative, Not a Sidebar

April 28, 2020

 –  John T. Pawlikowski

 

Unless our nation agrees about morality, laws will fall short

April 23, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Women religious model the Christian ecological vocation

April 21, 2020

 – Sr. Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF

 

As the suffering of many weighs on me, I’m learning to pray again

April 15, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

What Thomas Merton can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic

April 10, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

In a pandemic, when every day feels like Good Friday

April 9, 2020

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández

 

The church after coronavirus: Crisis exposes what is essential

April 2, 2020

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

Solidarity in a Time of Social Distancing

 

 

For the love of God (literally), stay home, be safe and pray

April 1, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

A new way to think about the ‘consistent ethic of life’

March 31, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Election 2020: encountering exhaustion, agony and hope

March 5, 2020

 – Mark Piper

 

What we need is an ‘integral economy’

March 4, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM

 

Querido Francisco

February 26, 2020

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Instituto Humanitas Unisinos

 

Querido Francisco

February 24, 2020

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

Catholic schools slow to accept cultural significance of black hair

February 20, 2020

 – Sarah Salvadore, National Catholic Reporter

 

Integral ecology requires a larger ‘seamless garment’

February 19, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, National Catholic Reporter

 

Rethinking politics: A better path to faithful citizenship

February 14, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Good intentions, right representation and writing latinidad

February 11, 2020

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

The unexpected life of a millennial nun

January 29, 2020

 –The Lilly.com

 

An Interview with Sister Mary Frohlich, RSCJ

January 26, 2020

 – Gordon Nary, Profiles in Catholicism

 

‘Portraits of Biblical Women’ at Mount St. Mary College

January 20, 2020

 –Catholic New York

 

The ecological significance of the Eucharist

January 22, 2020

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, National Catholic Reporter

 

Air Force commissions first female Muslim chaplain

January 10 , 2020

 – U.S. Air Force

 

In ‘American Utopia,’ a welcome reminder that hope abounds

January 6, 2020

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Christmas is for all God’s creatures

December 24 , 2019

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, National Catholic Reporter

 

The challenge of our Christian calling

December 9, 2019

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Changing the church depends on laypeople

November 19, 2019

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

30 years later, the Berlin Wall offers enduring lessons on peace

November 4, 2019

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Black Catholic theologians discuss the experience of suffering

October 30 , 2019

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St. John Henry Newman would approve of synod’s final document

October 30 , 2019

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, National Catholic Reporter

 

A legacy of Latin@́s theologizing on borderlands

October 18, 2019

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

What is Catholic integralism?

October 14, 2019

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

Fr. Tolton pilgrimage wraps up in Quincy

September 16, 2019

 – WGEM

 

 

Hate is not welcome aquí

August 9, 2019

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

Sneakers are never just sneakers

July 12, 2019

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

A View from the City: Creation, Recreation, y la Nueva Creación

July 12, 2019

 – Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology

 

 

Pope Francis elevates Augustus Tolton to ‘venerable’

June 19, 2019

 –Chicago Catholic

 

 

Confronting the ‘monarchy of fear’ with spiritual resistance

June 12, 2019

 – Rev. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

The risky business of doing ‘mercifying’ theology

June 11, 2019

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

Start a new church? Women deserve better than wise cracks

June 10, 2019

 – Steven P. Millies, U.S. Catholic

 

 

‘Ulam:Main Dish’ celebrates Filipino cuisine

June 1, 2019

 – Antonio D. Sison, CPPS, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

The politics of baseball, from Fenway Park to the South Lawn

May 14, 2019

 – Carmen Nanko-Fernández, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

Catholic Theological Union commemorates 50th anniversary

May 8, 2019

 –Chicago Catholic

 

 

Science and Theological Education: Reports from the Field

May 1, 2019

 –Scott C. Alexander, Religious Studies News

 

 

Canons on the Run

April 24, 2019

 – Hosted by 2 current CTU seminarians

 

 

The Franciscan Effect

April 17, 2019

 – Hosted by Dan Horan, OFM

 

 

Why the Catholic Church needs two different kinds of priesthood

April 1, 2019

 – America Magazine

 

 

Opening Day in Baseball

March 29, 2019

 – Just Love Blog

 

 

Q&A with Sr. Maria Cimperman, director of Center for Consecrated Life

January 29, 2019

 – Global Sisters Report

 

 

A saint of the quotidian in Alfonso Cuarón’s film ‘Roma’

January 12, 2019

 – Antonio D. Sison, CPPS, National Catholic Reporter

 

 

Rohr: Church needs an ‘awakening of the soul’

December 10, 2018

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

 

Dear @POTUS: The Nun Who Tweets a Daily Prayer to President Trump

December 6, 2018

 – New York Times

 

 

New grant initiative supports programs to reinvigorate pastoral leaders

June 28, 2018

 – National Catholic Reporter

 

 

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