It appears that the concept of complementarity will be front and center at the Synod of Bishops this October. In a nutshell, it means that two people or things complement each other and somehow belong ...

Panelists speak during the “Women in Leadership: Towards a brighter future” event at the Jesuit curia in Rome on March 6, 2024. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/Crux.) Listen ROME – As the world marks ...

In 1979-81, in a series of general audience talks, Pope John Paul II introduced into Catholic theology the notion of complementarity, which soon became a foundational idea in his and magisterial ...

Have you read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? I ask because in physics, complementarity holds that to completely understand a phenomenon at an atomic level, one must be able to describe ...

In his Pensees (“Thoughts”), Blaise Pascal wrote: “By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom.” In Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman wrote: “I contain multitudes.” On the surface, ...

A year ago the bishops of the Episcopal Church received a 95-page report by eight theologians to provide the church with a "theology of same-sex relationships." (The report was published in the Winter ...

An interview with Sister Mary Prudence Allen, author of ‘The Concept of Woman.’ Pope Francis greets Religious Sister of Mercy Sister Mary Prudence Allen at the Humanum colloquium in the Vatican's ...