Karen Kilby

Sep 1, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Karen Kilby

When I need to give a brief overview of Karl Rahner's theology, I often find myself including a list of some of the topics on which he wrote. Not only did he publish on grace, ecclesiology, Christology, sacraments, and the doctrine of the Trinity, I might say, but also on leisure, childhood, poetry, death, televising the Mass, old age, indulgences, sleep, power, penance, the spiritual senses, and so on. A list can communicate something about the range of Rahner's work, and its occasional quality.

May 31, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby

U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington May 22, 2023 (OSV News photo/Leah Millis, Reuters). In 2011, the last time the country faced a debt-ceiling showdown, Republican lawmakers took away an important lesson: economic extortion and political brinkmanship are good politics.

May 31, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby

Migrants waiting near the U.S. border wall are battered by dust and high winds near El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023 (OSV News photo/Reuters). With the May 11 expiration of the national health emergency related to the pandemic, the use of Title 42 as an immigration-enforcement tool also came to an end.