What theological peer-reviewed (academic) journals are you reading?

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Every larger publishing house of scientific literature (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, Sage, Taylor & Francis etc.) has at least some journals of theology and sacred scripture and religious studies and studies of historical Jesus, apocryphs and biblical archeology etc. There are at last some half-hundred academic journals devoted to the catholic theology and philosophy specifically, e.g. many can be found from wiki list List of theology journals - Wikipedia

Besides, Stanford online encyclopedia has nice articles about philosophy of religion, about arguments of existence of God and so on.

Pope has some special academies (they can be found in http://www.vatican.va/siti_va/index_va_en.htm under the list of Pontifical academies), Rome also has greate catholic pontifical universities Pontifical universities in Rome - Wikipedia and each of the have at lest one or more academic journals.

My question is - are you at lest trying to read something that happens in the catholic theology, in exegesis, catholic ethics. Are you aware of the theological discussions e.g. about sexual ethics, about relationships between science and revelation, about intreligious dialogue, about the complexity of applying the social teaching to the real world problems and so on?

Are you truly satisfied with the catholicism that is presented from the pulpit or in the popular mass journals for catholics. If faith determines your life, aren’t you willing to go deeper in the knowledge in faith?

I personall try to read “Theological studies” from the Sage, '“New Blackfriars” from the Wiley, Sacred scripture journals from Sage and Cambridge University Press and also - a bit from Act from the Pontificial academy of Social Sciences. I am waiting for the research from the Pontifical Academy of Life - they have interesting projects on gene editing and artificial intelligence. But almost nothing has emerged yet.

Of course, I have very little time - 10-15 minuter average per day for such studies. Not always I understand everything, but then it gives motivation for the growth of education and knowledge, I should seek books and encyclopedias as well. But at least I am trying. For me - the homilies and popular catholic journals can be good for boosting up morale, but they give almost nothing for knowledge and certainly - they do not inform about the intellectual discussians that happens when we are not trying to reduce the world, when we are not trying to make our world and our dilemmas simplistic.
 
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Are you truly satisfied with the catholicism that is presented from the pulpit or in the popular mass journals for catholics. If faith determines your life, aren’t you willing to go deeper in the knowledge in faith?
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Well no, but a presupposition you have here would seem to suggest that we should all be intellectual about our faith. That’s not self-evident. Given the wide variety of human lives being lived (where some prize the intellectual, others prize the spiritual and still others prize the material aspects of existence) it would seem that humanity itself is a tapestry, an interwoven collection of individuals oriented towards sometimes disparate things. I could not ever possibly be a good CEO. And I’m terrible at keeping up with the Joneses. But, someone has to run Microsoft, Apple, SpaceX and Target. Not me but someone with a disposition to do so well.

I’ve known many Catholics whose intellectualism was through the roof but their prayer lives were almost non-existent. Some folks are just oriented toward the acquisition of knowledge. Others want to participate in social justice and helping the poor. Some lead celibate lives. And still others barely make it to mass a few times a year. That’s humanity though, isn’t it? Such amazing diversity! The challenge comes in valuing those others who aren’t oriented like yourself, isn’t it?

But, to answer your question, I have subscriptions to JSTOR and Academia.edu, but mostly I read books. But again, I’m oriented toward the intellectual. Not everyone is. And it’s perfectly fine that way. After all, who is doing more for humanity? The intellectual or those involved in social justice? Most people would probably say the latter.
 
I’d rather the average Catholic read the Bible, or CCC or the Church fathers. If the average Catholic could believe in the Eucharist or sexual morality then you would have a basis to do what you are asking. However, they don’t.
 
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we should all be intellectual about our faith
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I will add that most theological journals are fairly inaccessible to laypeople (such as myself), both in cost and the comprehensiveness of presumed knowled as the assumed audience are largely scholarly peers.

I did my undergraduate in Classics (Greek and Latin languages) with ancillary studies in Classical Hebrew and theology, but even then many journal articles have me scratching my head.
 
Really whatever is relevant to research I am undertaking. They are all a much easier read then some science journals I used where appropriate.
My advice , if you are not researching and writing for a career, is to identify what you want to study and see what google scholar has freely accessible online.
 
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