Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
No God but Santa
A few days ago, one of my undergraduate students asked me, “Why do so many people believe…
The Little Eschaton
Different kinds of Christians do Christmas in their different ways, and fights naturally break out among opposing…
Our Witness to Freedom
It’s been a good year, a very good one. Subscriptions are up. We’re closing in on 30,000…
A Meditation on “Maranatha”
Happy (real) new year: the beginning of a new year of grace, which began December 3 with…
Our Claim on God’s Mercy
This text was originally delivered as a homily on the first Sunday of Advent. Blessed John Henry…
Serve Somebody
Once, as an impecunious PhD student, I decided I had to forgo my weekly Hill Street Blues…
Christian Freedom
Earlier this year, when the British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told an incredulous TV presenter that he objects…
A Harvest of Witnesses
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…
An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”
In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…
So Long, Age of Letters
The other day, I sat down to write a letter to our college-age daughter, who is spending…
Our Misguided War on Legalism
I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…
Everything Is Outside the Text
Rémi Brague famously described Europe as having an “eccentric identity.” He meant that Europe’s culture is one…
A Christian Strategy
The problem is the relentless aggression of liberalism, driven by an internal mechanism that causes ever more…
Pope Francis, Exorcist
Just in time for Halloween, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has published an English translation of…
The Church in Afghanistan
Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…
