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I was delighted to recently learn that Pope Leo had just authorized the publication of a substantial new study by the International Theological Commission (ITC)

Providentially timed up with the release of my Cosmic Covenant book from Word on Fire, my latest column at Catholic World Report reflects on why care for creation

is It’s official: my book Cosmic Covenant: A Catholic Theology of Creation is published today! I’m grateful to everyone who helped bring this project to life

While AI certainly has its uses in environmental work, only embodied creatures who love particular places can enter the relationship of love and responsibility that

I recently had the blessing of appearing on Relevant Radio for its morning program The Mark Swartzberg Show to discuss the theological foundations of Jewish-Catholic friendship

Praised be to God for the release of Pope Leo XIV’s first encylclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas. There are many newsworthy dimensions to the document, and I

I’m pleased to share my first-ever essay on Word on Fire’s main blog, entitled “The Digital Papacy: Newman and the Crisis of Online Catholic Discourse.” The

What are machines shaping us into? And how can we find incarnate transcendence in an age tending more every day toward immersion in the machine

I recently had the honor to join Dr. Daniel Kuebler, biologist at my alma mater Franciscan University of Steubenville, for an episode of their outstanding

“Learn a lesson from the Joshua tree.” In my latest Catholic World Report column published yesterday, I draw on my recent trip to Joshua Tree

This weekend, I was honored to be invited once again to return to the massive annual Religious Education Congress in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles

After passing on sharing updates here for a month, I am happy to share this unique conversation I was blessed to have the other day.

In light of rising antisemitism and misinformation on the subject even among Catholics, I took the past month to revisit Benedict XVI’s ever-nuanced teaching on

… and what the Catholic Church can learn from Gates’ recent essay on the topic. That’s the title (and subtitle) of my most recent column at

As the internet erupted over Pope Leo’s blessing of a 20,000-year-old block of melting Greenland ice, I remained happily oblivious to the firestorm while delivering

In my latest essay for Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, I explored a fresh perspective on transubstantiation advanced by three prominent Catholic thinkers: Pope Benedict

Amid the many great things happening this month (far above all, welcoming our eighth child into the world), my engagements have recently highlighted my ongoing

I’m excited to share my first piece on Pope Leo XIV’s contribution to the Church’s theology of creation and its care, just published in my

This week, I was pleased to return to Ave Maria in the Afternoon, where I had the chance to chat with host Marcus Peter about my

This week I had the blessing of joining Dr. Stuart Squires–Director of the MAPM Program at St. John’s Seminary, the seminary of the Archdiocese of

Among the many aspects of Pope Francis’s life and legacy that are worthy of our consideration, I am especially interested in his relationship with his

This has been an exciting week. First, the Center for Integral Ecology where I serve as co-director recently sponsored the outstanding event Faith & Science:

This evening I had the pleasure of joining Dom Dalmasso on his excellent podcast The Logos Project to talk about the heart of Ratzinger’s theology. It’s been

As a delightful follow-up to the podcast I shared yesterday, here’s my radio spot from Ave Maria in the Afternoon, where I had the chance