Life of Faith

Hilaire Belloc once said of the Church: “No merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would…

Jack Phillips barely had time to catch his breath. Less than a month after the Supreme Court…

At the heart of the recent Catholic scandals is infidelity—literally the lack of faith. There are priests,…

Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…

At the end of July, in a barely air-conditioned Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri, beneath soaring…

Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…

It is summer, and vacation is on our minds—either memories of vacations past, or plans for vacations…

As Western society continues its relentless purge of the pre-political, the body count keeps mounting. Yesterday’s harmless…

A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…

The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…

This article contains spoilers for the film Hereditary. In his preface to Hostage to the Devil, Malachi Martin…

You’re the best! First Things readers are intellectually engaged, morally and religiously committed, and very generous. We…

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during…

My staff tells me we can’t enroll in “Facebook donate.” That’s the direct-donation feature allowing users to…

Some years ago, Rusty Reno invited me to a seminar on the subject of transhumanism and its…