When we speak of Creation, it seems that we need to be aware of what might be called a hierarchy of creative value. At the top of the hierarchy is the Creator himself; then there is creation, which is ...

I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...

Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church. “It’s a ...

In a special three-part series, Sr. Joan Chittister interviews feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson about her latest book, "Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth" (Orbis, 2024). In ...

Perhaps the clearest thing in Genesis 1 is the affirmation of the goodness of creation. We find the key refrain that runs through this passage of Scripture: "God saw that it was good." Six times, ...