The “creative” way of redefining historical heresies for the sake of present-day quarrels could be used against Francis.

The idea that all people are children of God means that all people will ultimately be saved, thus blurring the distinction between nature and grace, between being a created person and being a saved person.

Five years ago, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis.

Mariology is a testcase that provides an opportunity to see to what extent the Trinity and Christology belong to the shared faith.

There is no sign of a massive turn of evangelicals to Roman Catholicism. Nonetheless, what is happening is worth investigating.

The recent papal journey to Myanmar and Bangladesh provides an entry point into the applied missiology of the Pope.

The one who is supposed to guard the Roman Catholic deposit of faith is charged with allegations of introducing confusion, if not heresy.

On the surface, the Pope’s comments on justification seem to be very biblical and indeed very Protestant.

Modern Catholicism is “a synthesis of medieval essentialism and modern existentialism”, the Dutch philosopher and theologian Cornelius Van Til said.

For the Catholic Church, “by grace alone” means that grace is intrinsically, constitutionally, and necessarily linked to the sacrament, and thus to the Church that administers it.

This request shows that when the Pope talked about all religious people being “children of God” he did not simply mean members of the human family.

The word “evangelization” is used across the spectrum of the Christian world. The question is: What is the meaning of it? How is it defined? What does it refer to?

The Holy Spirit is neither present nor active in a mission in which sin and the cross of Christ are absent.

Pope Francis focuses on the primacy of conscience rather than the prescriptive nature of law.

The traditional theological structure was geared to give Yes or No answers. The post-Vatican II structure is more inclined to suggest Both-And types of answer on all kinds of issues.

What the Pope has in mind is an altogether different kind of reformation, i.e. a reformation that will make his church more catholic and more Roman, doubtfully more evangelical.

Protestants find it difficult to come to terms with this Marian dogma. This is due to not finding even a hint of evidence for this belief in the Bible.

With Pope Francis the Roman Catholic Church is simply becoming more “catholic”, i.e. embracing and absorbing all, without losing its being “Roman”.

In assessing the ecumenical scene, the risk of looking at Lund without being aware of what happens in Rome is real. 

Where is the Roman church headed After Vatican II? An interview with Leonardo de Chirico.

The territorial dimension of the hierarchical church, centered on the authority of the bishop, has found it difficult to come to terms with the charismatic energy of the movements, more inclined to follow their own lay leaders than the local bishops.

The issue at stake is whether or not Luther is to be rescued from himself in order to be heard by the church and the world.

What does it mean to be Catholic? The question is simple but the answer is fraught with complexities.

Any accommodation to the idea that we are ultimately capable of saving ourselves, any accommodation to the fact that salvation is not God’s gift from beginning to end is a slippery slope towards a false gospel.

The way in which Catholicism perceives time - the sense of definitiveness as well as that of a progression - is a solid indicator of its basic theological framework.