Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Defending the Religious Sense
Philosopher Robert P. George delivered a speech in Washington, D.C., last month concerning the resurgence of paganism. The speech…
Why I Am a Protestant
The week of October 31, the traditional time to remember the Reformation, is also the annual moment…
Balm for Germany?
A biweekly column about Jewish things. As a Jewish child, I was taught to accept Holocaust survivors’…
The Synod’s Dissenters
Barack Obama announced in 2012 that religious liberty was “an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution. As…
The Ideological Hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod…
Demon of Disunity
Some demons are particularly noxious. The only antidote that gets rid of them is prayer. Jesus makes this…
Poland Polarized
In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the…
Human Dignity Redefined
In revolutionary countries you expect to find desecration: churches turned into lavatories or reformatories, their sanctuaries wrecked…
Newman’s Shocking Faith
How was the interfaith meeting? As a person of faith—by which I mean that you can tick…
Israel’s Political Mythology
Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…
Cancelling Debts in Cancel Culture
In a culture that has given itself over almost entirely to extreme moral accountability, mercy often appears…
On the Eve of the Amazon Synod
As leaders of the Catholic Church prepare to open the Amazon Synod on Sunday, the fundamental question…
Turning Sauls into Pauls
A third of the way through the Book of Acts, a man named Saul takes over the…
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
In late June I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few…
Scandal in South Carolina
A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores,…
