Articles from 1980-1989

The Unity of the Church and the Kingdom of God

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

The Theologian’s Craft: Servant of the Church

Good Friday. Radio Homily on 4 April

Thoughts on the Unity of Theology

A New Theory of Jesus as “Scapegoat”

Judgment

Does Jesus Enlighten the Heart?

Experience of God?

Experiencing the Absence of God

Escape into the Community

Corpus Christi. Radio Homily on 5 June

All Ways Lead to the Cross

The Church is Communion

On True and False Care. Homily on Luke 12:13-21 (3 August)

“Exalted Above All Powers”

First Glance at the Teaching of Saint Catherine of Siena

The Break and the Bridge Between the Public Ministry and the Passion in the Life of Jesus

The Bishop and His Seminary

God Becomes Man

Another Ten Years – 1975

Beyond Death

Christ Died for Our Sins. Radio Homily on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Towards a Christian Theology of Hope

Theology and Aesthetics

He Who Sees Me Sees the Father. Radio Homily on 24 May

Remembering Paul Claudel

Woman: Synaogue – Mary – Church

The Wager of the Secular Institutes

The Concept of Beauty in Theology

The Anti-Roman Attitude

Homily on Matt 25:1-13. Radio Homily on 8 November

The “Beatitudes” and Human Rights

Epiphany . Radio Homily on 3 January

The Way Knows Us

“Death is Swallowed up by Life”

Approaches to Christology

The “Beatitudes” and Human Rights

Love Comes Down “From Above”

The Word of God is Never Tired. Radio Homily on the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Way to the Father is No Detour. Radio Homily on the Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Friendship Among the Saints

The Rejection of Jesus in His Own Country. Radio Homily on 23 January

Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology

Our Death in Christ’s Death. Ash Wednesday Lecture for Artists

The First-born of the New World

Basic Christological Questions

Mary and the Spirit

The Parable of the Good Samaritan. Radio Homily

The Youthfulness of Jesus

Luke 15:4-7. Radio Homily on 11 September

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Giovanni Testori: Two Masters in Dialogue About Our Times

The Body Given

The Place of Happiness

The Mystery of Death

Meditation. The Destiny of the World

Mary – Archetype of the Church. On the Apparitions of the Mother of the Lord

The Sources of My Existence

The Mystery of Christmas

The Eternal Child of the Father.. He Who Makes Himself Small is the Greatest

Prayer for Communio

“Exalted Above All Powers”

Prayer and Technique

Culture and the Cross

The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matt 6:31-34). Radio Homily on 26 February

Transcendentality and Gestalt

The Spiritual Legacy of Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity [Louisa Jacques]

Thoughts on the Passion of Christ

The Fifth Sunday of Easter (1 Cor 15:14-19). Radio Homily on 20 Mary

Eternal Time in Eternal Time

A Hundred Questions for Balthasar

The Unity of the Theological Virtues

The Descent Into Hell

Short Catechesis on Hell

If Christ Were No Longer a Scandal or a Folly for Men and Peoples

How Freedom and Justice Flow for Us from the Trinity

The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matt 16:21-27). Radio Homily on 2 September

Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967). Participation in the Passion and Godforsakenness

Let us Follow this Message

Jesus as Child and His Praise of the Child

Life and Institution in the Church

Peter and the Pilars of the Church

The Lord is Good, and the Work of his Hands is Holy

Christ’s Gift and the Eucharistic Sacrifice

The Holy Church and the Eucharistic Sacrifice

A Sacrifice That Costs Nothing?

Distinctively Christian Prayer

I Show You a Great Mystery

Journey in the Post-Conciliar World

Christ, the Light of the Pagans

“A Pope Fed on Prayer for This Offended and Wounded Church”. A Conversation Between Messori and Balthasar

In Support of a Courageous Cardinal. Balthasar on Ratzinger

Peace in Theology

An Outline of Eschatology

Meet Hans Urs von Balthasar. An Interview by Marcel Brisebois

The Human Things that Make Us Understand God. Interview with Gerard Leclerc

What is Liberation Theology Good for?

Thank You, My God, for Your Good Friday

On the Concept of Person

A Christian Reflection on Death and Love. A Dialogue on Faith and the Destiny of the World with Renato Farina

The Spirit as an “Uncreated Gift” to the World

Augustine Did not Rest in God

Humanity as Prayer

On the Question of “Hope for All”

Editorial [on the issue devoted to “Unity in the Church”

Christ: The Fact Among All Facts

Can We Resist Love?

The Salvific Wound

Mary, the Church’s Immaculate Memory

Is the Crucified “Blessed”?

Mary in Our Time

The Meaning of Christ’s Saying “I Am the Truth”

Dear Friends of the North American Communio

Editorial. Sanctity, Crisis, Theological Renewal

Theology and Holiness

Mary in our Time

Meditations on the Creed

The Anti-roman Epidemic

Editorial: The Meaning of the Communion of Saints

Catholicism and the Communion of Saints

“Who Am I?”

Witness and Credibility

Creation and Trinity

Applause for the Creator

I predict Persecution

Apocatastasis

Buddhism – An Approach to Dialogue

Prayer to Receive the Holy Spirit

Prayer for “Communio”