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AuthorIlinton, Harold C.
AuthorIllich, Ivan
AuthorIMBELLI, (REV.) ROBERT P.
AuthorImbelli, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Robert P.
AuthorImbelli, Robert
AuthorImbelli, Robert P
AuthorImbelli, Robert P.
Paid articleA We without Boundaries (June 2024)
Before There Was Ferrante RANDY BOYAGODA In a 2014 interview, the novelist Elena Ferrante described the transformative effect of reading Elsa Morante’s 1948 novel Lies and Sorcery when she...
Paid articleThe theology of Louis Bouyer (October 2023)
ARTICLE From Glory to Glory Robert P. Imbelli Louis Bouyer’s cosmic vision In 1961, I started my one and only year at Saint Joseph’s Dunwoodie, the New York archdiocesan seminary. The...
Paid articleLetter from a retirement home (May 2020)
SHORT TAKES ROBERT P. IMBELLI Privileged & Vulnerable Letter from a priests’ retirement home The first sign appeared on the door of the priests’ retirement residence where I live. It...
Paid articleThe Crucifixion (March 2016)
BOOKS Robert P. Imbelli No Glib Gospel The Crucifixion Understanding the Death ofJesus Christ Fleming Rutledge Eerdmans, $45, 695 pp. Sixteen years ago I reviewed appreciatively for Commonweal...
Paid articleHistory, Hope & Iphones (October 2011)
Continuing the Conversation History, Hope & iPhones Robert P. Imbelli I have long admired Andrew J. Bacevich’s writings. His style is limpid and often eloquent. His analyses are penetrating and...
Paid articleTownie (May 2011)
Robert P. Imbelli The Fighter Townie A Memoir Andre Dibits III Norton, $25.95, 387 pp. One of the most moving collections of essays I know is Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus II. Almost twenty...
Paid articleDante's Commedia (October 2010)
Robert P. Imbelli The Sacred Poem Dante's Commedia Theology as Poetry Edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne University of Notre Dame Press, $40, 400 pp. Tl S. Eliot wrote that...
Paid articleHouse of Bread (December 2007)
House of Bread The Last Word Robert P. Imbelli Every fall, at the beginning of my undergraduate course “Exploring Catholicism,” I ask students to compose a religious self-portrait. I...
Paid articleCallings edited by William C. Placher (March 2006)
tion of existence--individual and yet common that addresses us amidst threats to our own survival and a violence en- demic to the human condition. "In this wrought context," he writes, "with its...
Paid articleThe Church & Benedict XVI (May 2005)
CNS photo from Reuters same time to be authentically Christian, convinced of the unique role of Jesus Christ in salvation and of the duty to share this message with others? Novo millennio...
Paid articleCaravaggio in Naples (March 2005)
Robert P. ImbeUi Tortured Genius THE MIRACLE OF CARAVAGGIO'S ART C laims of a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to see the works of a popular artistic genius rightfully merit skepticism. But...
Paid articleWho Do You Say that I Am? (January 2005)
ways thoughtful and engaging. Although a few needless polemics are thrown out in The Roads to Modernity, this is the Himmelfarb I love to read. In this time of terror and global conflict, we...
Paid articleOratio Pro Caravaggio (June 2004)
teaching of the church did not make me feel any less compassion for women in the terrible situation of contemplating an abortion, but it did challenge my notion of when life begins and what...
Paid articleRome & relativism (October 2000)
few clues as to how to reason about the truth. Its claims have to do with authority. Among some Catholic theologians, Anyone who cares...
Paid articleSeminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry (February 2000)
Robert P. Imbelli Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, has taught at Saint Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie and the Maryknoll School of Theology. He currently teaches theology...
Paid articleFriends of God and Prophets (October 1998)
knew that he would be asked for his reaction. In the event he referred to Matthew 25:34, but what was widely quoted and evoked a political storm was his simple statement: "I will not turn my...
Paid articlePunishing dessent (August 1998)
_9 The pope approved on September 19, 1989, the new formula for the profession of faith which the CDF had already made public on January 9 of that year. This is the formula which he added to...
Paid articlePattern of Redemption, by Edward T. Oakes (April 1995)
BOOKS Putting beauty back into theology A dozen years ago I re- viewed the English translation of the first volume of von Balth- asar' s The Glory of the Lord (Commonweal, November 4,1983). Since...
Paid articleThe Community of Sant'Egidio (November 1994)
evasion of responsibility. The members of the church, like the church itself, witness not to self, but to Christ. Christ alone is the "light of the nations"; to witness to him and to announce the...
Paid articleBelieving Three Ways in One God Nicholas Lash (January 1994)
The Creed in contemplation In Mo tempore, when public reading during silent meals was the norm at monasteries and retreat houses, Nicholas Lash's new book would have been the perfect...
Paid articleAre All Christians Ministers? (March 1993)
highlight the Christological nature of the begin the implementation all over again, texts. He acknowledges the enthusiasm church, such as the Body of Christ. but in a controlled...
Paid articleGod for Us (January 1993)
BOOKS God for us or God for God? Some months back, Robert GOD FOR US arate intra-Trinitarian realm in which ...
Paid articleFaith's Freedom (July 1991)
clericalism. One can infer from Ravitch's analysis that leopards and spots may finally be separated. Yet are they? My one regret is that the author closes his work with the supposed liberal...
Paid articleChristian Belief in a Postmodern World/Quest (March 1991)
Called Crisis of Christianity"), he looks to those who have faith to reinspire Western culture. Most of the essays are fairly easy to read and sparkle with wit. The most humorous is a satire...
Paid articleVatican II: twenty years later (October 1982)
Vatican II: twenty years later ROBERT P. IMBELU TWENTY YEARS AGO this October, I (together with thousands of others) descended, with much curiosity and some hope, into the vast St. Peter's Square...
Paid articleTrue Prayer/The Way of the Heart/Prayer of the Heart (November 1981)
TRUE PRATER AN INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY Kenneth Leech Harper & Row, $10.95, 202 pp. PRATER Or THE HEART George A. Maloney, S.J. Ave Maria Press, $3.95, 206 pp. Robert P....
Paid articleThe Catholic Thing/The Anatomy of the Catholic Church (September 1980)
charismatic, incalculable component of the Catholic thing.) What sets Rosemary Haughton's work apart is not only her pictorial skill in portraying these twin figures, not only her learned...
AuthorImbelli, Ronald Christ, Joseph A. Page, Robert P.
AuthorImbriaco, Joseph E.
AuthorIMPASTATO, DAVID
AuthorImperatori-Lee, Natalia
AuthorIMWALLE, HELEN
AuthorIncandela, Joseph M
AuthorIncognitus, Fr.
AuthorIndia
AuthorINGRAM, RAY E.
AuthorInsole, Christopher J.
AuthorInvestigation, Monopoly
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