Catholicism

"Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church is a highly readable but to my taste over-dramatized account of the papacy of Francis," writes Professor Frank Clooney.

"Breaking the hold of hard Catholic Gnosticism is a step toward healing the softer Gnosticism of seekers in the wider world," writes Professor Francis Clooney.

Pope Francis’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, Amoris Laetitia, has been received as “groundbreaking” by his supporters and schismatic by his critics. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asserts that the Pope’s position on...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Professor Francis X. Clooney discusses the meaning of canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, a steadfast voice for the poor who was gunned down in 1980.

Professor Jon Levenson writes that for traditional Jews and Catholics alike, liberalism has presented parallel but different dangers; but so has anti-liberalism.

HDS student Timothy Gallati studies experiences of “silence” in nature and contemplative practice, with applications in virtual and augmented realities. His research focuses on accounts of listening to silence in sound art, poetry, and Catholic monastic...

HBO's "The Young Pope," has renewed interest in the actual youngest pope. Professor Kevin Madigan offers insight to TIME magazine.

Professor Frank Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, discusses finding, losing, and again finding wisdom in Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali.

HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., on the parable of Lazarus at the rich man's house.