ABOUT COMMUNIO
About Communio
Communio: International Catholic Review is a quarterly journal of Catholic theology, culture, and thought.
Founded in 1972 by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger, Communio was conceived as an instrument of theological renewal in continuity with the living tradition of the Church. Its name expresses something essential to that vision: Christian truth is received and understood within the communion given in Christ and lived in the Church.
Communio seeks to join theological reflection to the life of faith and to consider the Christian mystery in relation to the whole of human existence. From its beginnings, the journal has therefore resisted separating theology from philosophy, prayer from reflection, or faith from culture. Its aim is neither simply academic nor narrowly topical, but catholic in the fullest sense: to think from the center of the faith toward the breadth of reality.
The Journal
The English-language edition of Communio began publication in 1974 and appears quarterly. It belongs to an international family of independently published Communio editions, whose collaboration makes possible an ongoing exchange of theological reflection across languages and cultures.
The journal publishes both contemporary work and significant texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition. Its pages bring theological inquiry into conversation with philosophy, the arts, culture, and the questions that shape the life of the Church and the world.
What Communio Contemplates
Communio is concerned with the mysteries of Christian faith and with their implications for the full breadth of human life.
Theology and Philosophy
The journal considers the central questions of Christian revelation and the philosophical questions inseparable from them: God and creation, Christ and the Church, sacrament and worship, nature and grace, freedom, metaphysics, and the meaning of the human person.
Faith, Culture, and Human Life
Communio also considers the forms of life in which faith takes flesh: art and literature, family and community, education and intellectual culture, and the wider encounter between Christianity and contemporary society. The aim is not to append culture to theology as a separate subject, but to ask what Christian faith discloses about reality as a whole.
“Harmonize culture and faith.”
John Paul II
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