“There is a God, and you’re not him.” The advice of the fictional University of Notre Dame priest in Rudy is well taken. There are several ways that we confuse our efforts with God’s. This Sunday’s ...

Another form of fake holiness mentioned in Pope Francis' "Gaudete et exsultate" is what is known as Pelagianism that also includes its mitigated but still erroneous idea of holiness that is labeled as ...

Pope Francis has said it is “useless” to seek solutions to ills and problems in the Church through “conservatism and fundamentalism” and warned against a faith that is “locked in subjectivism” in a ...

The first stirring sentences of the new CDF letter to bishops, Placuit Deo, reject the very notion of a "new paradigm" by which "the newness of the Holy Spirit" could somehow mean a departure from the ...

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Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...

A new letter issued by the Vatican's doctrinal office has reaffirmed that Christian salvation can only come through Christ and the Church, and highlighted modern expressions of Pelagian and Gnostic ...

Both of these heresies have been formally condemned for over 1,500 years, yet, Pope Francis argues, remain powerful obstacles to leading a holy life today, precisely because they present themselves as ...

It’s 2022, but Arianism and Pelagianism are steadily making a comeback, according to the State of Theology report. American evangelicals’ grasp on theology is slipping, and more than half affirmed ...

Archbishop Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks at a news conference to present the document "Placuit Deo" at the Vatican March 1 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).

As a spiritual guide to those seeking to be better Christians, Pope Francis recognizes that many are tempted to follow the wrong paths to holiness. These are not bad people following the path of sin, ...

One of the best definitions of heresy I've heard over the years describes it as the experience of mistaking part of the truth for the whole truth in a matter of faith or doctrine. This description ...