Doctrine and Tradition

Thomas Aquinas's Summa at the Council of Trent?

The Origins of a Theological Legend

Mar 14 • Matthew Shadle

The Just-War Tradition and Preventive War

Early Modern Voices and the Current Conflict in Iran

Mar 8 • Matthew Shadle

Tradition is Not a Rigid and Dead Notion

The Theological Stakes of the Vatican-SSPX Impasse

Feb 28 • Matthew Shadle

Why Study the Council of Trent?

Reflections on an Upcoming Conference

Feb 22 • Matthew Shadle

Economic Analogies for the Sacraments in the Middle Ages

What I've Been Working On

Feb 6 • Matthew Shadle

More on Monogamy and Mary

Further Conversation on Two Recent Vatican Documents

Dec 19, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

Reading the Vatican Commission Report on the Female Diaconate

Inconclusive Findings, Open Theological Questions

Dec 16, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

A Commentary on Una Caro, the Vatican's Document on Monogamy

"Both the New and the Old"

Dec 7, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

What We Profess with our Mouths Must Come from the Heart

Pope Leo on the Nicene Creed

Nov 28, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

A Commentary on the DDF's Mater Populi Fidelis

Mary's Cooperation in the Work of Salvation

Nov 18, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

Theology for All Saints

Readings for Commemorating the Faithful Departed

Nov 2, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

Love for the Poor and the Church's Great Tradition

A Second Reflection on Pope Leo XIV's Dilexi Te

Oct 19, 2025 • Matthew Shadle

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