Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
We Shall Meet
Nature bestows a great gift on those who dwell in the Northern hemisphere: The seasons conveniently align…
Death at Tree of Life
On Saturday, October 27, 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers shot eleven Jews dead and wounded nine at Pittsburgh’s…
Shifting Tectonic Plates in Eastern Christianity
ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences…
Anti-Semitism and the Rise of Rage
News of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh hit me like a punch…
Nothing Compares to Allah
Remember Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer-songwriter with an ethereal voice and a penchant for troublemaking? Well, Sinéad…
The Theology of Hope
Austrian Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert is former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy…
In Persona Christi Capitis
In the wake of the McCarrick revelations and the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, I…
Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
We Will Not Yield
In 1977 my parents came to the difficult conclusion that there was no future for them and…
No Salvation Without the Other
In the aftermath of Archbishop Viganò’s fresh detailing of Catholic clerical scandal and his call for the…
Unmasking Monsters
Midway through Revelation, John sees a pantomime of the Gospel’s beginning, enacted in the sky (Rev. 12).…
Fr. Gavancho’s Fate
In July, a new associate pastor arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in downtown Santa Barbara,…
St. Michael, Pray for Us
I’m a student of pubs. Maybe it’s because my dad owned one. Maybe it’s because they smell…
