[2] In 2004, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) barred Haight from teaching at the Weston School of Theology in response to questions about his book Jesus Symbol of God (Orbis, 1999).
[9] In 2016 he published Spiritual and Religious: Explorations for Seekers, and in 2017 his "Theology of the Cross" was the topic of an article in the English Jesuit Heythrop Journal.
The CDF objected to Haight's theological method, his assertions about the divinity of Jesus and his resurrection, and his interpretation of other key Catholic dogmas such as the Trinity.
The clarifications Haight provided in 2000 were judged unsatisfactory by the CDF and in January 2001 it initiated a formal investigation which led to his 2004 removal from Catholic universities and 2009 complete prohibition from teaching and writing.
[11] In 2005 John Allen, after a long review of diverse responses to Haight's Jesus Symbol of God, described it as "a work of vast erudition", and concluded: The theological community appears divided over the Vatican's recent censure of Jesuit Fr.