Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Guns and the American Soul

Peter J. Leithart

In the aftermath of the horror at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Justice John Paul Stevens’s…

Make Catholic Education Catholic Again

Mark Bauerlein

In my recent article, “The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools,” I outlined the failure of Catholic schools…

Dobbs Hysteria and Russian Disinformation

George Weigel

There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space…

St. Augustine’s Guide to Living Well

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Foley joins the podcast to…

How Mary Whitehouse Waged War on Pornography

Jonathon Van Maren

We have reached the point where our post-Christian elites, having safely enshrined the sexual revolution in law,…

Saturday Night Live Tackles Abortion

John Murdock

Saturday Night Live has long felt dated. The skits telegraph and then often explain their jokes. Moments…

The Rise of Byzantium

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Paul Stephenson joins the podcast to…

My Memories of Midge Decter

R. R. Reno

Let me think about it,” Midge Decter said. It was early in 2014. I was looking for…

Les Murray the Misfit Poet

Stephen Schmalhofer

When the great Australian poet Les Murray died in April 2019, he left an incomplete volume of…

The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools

Mark Bauerlein

How many Catholic schools are really just public schools with a Mass requirement attached, plus an elective…

Protecting Orthodox Jewish Schools

Rabbi Moshe Hauer

In the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, Amish Americans challenged Wisconsin’s compulsory education law, which…

Fire Upon the Earth

Charles J. Chaput Thomas Weinandy O.F.M. Cap.

Contempt for reli­­gious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars such…

What Happened in the French Election

Theodore Dalrymple

When a man who is widely disliked or even hated wins a political election by a crushing…

Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

Hans Feichtinger

Ever so slowly, the “Synod on Synodality” is beginning. A preparatory process of “listening and dialogue” in…

Artists and Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Many artists have grappled with how to depict abortion. Ernest Hemingway wrote an entire short story about…