original sin
Pope Benedict ‘closed’ Limbo and no one complained
By Thomas Reese — April 11, 2023
(RNS) — The church can never admit that something it was teaching or doing for centuries was dumb.
If a Dr. Seuss book offends us, why not pluck it out?
By Tara Isabella Burton — April 8, 2021
(RNS) — 'Canceling' problematic media properties provides us with a way to talk about the complicated nature of desire.
The countercultural drama of Ash Wednesday
By Jacob Lupfer — February 17, 2021
(RNS) — The day offers an opportunity for the devout, the skeptical and the merely curious to embrace the reality of sin.
When saints fall
By Thomas Reese — February 25, 2020
(RNS) — I can forgive sins of weakness, but I am not ready to forgive Theodore McCarrick, Vanier, Harvey Weinstein and other men who are alleged to have abused their power to prey on the vulnerable.
Author: Jesus didn’t believe in ‘original sin’ and neither should we
By Jonathan Merritt — January 13, 2017
One theologian says that Jesus didn't believe this doctrine, and we shouldn't either.
Is work a punishment from God?
By Daniel Burke — August 30, 2012
(RNS) On the first Monday of September, America honors working stiffs by taking a paid day off. But does Labor Day celebrate an enterprise that God invented as a punishment? By Daniel Burke.
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