Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Stages on Life’s Way
Reading Dante’s Purgatorio, one can’t help wondering what terraces await one at the conclusion of the terrestrial…
Christian Religion as Common Language
In postwar Britain, the Butler Education Act (1944) required all schools to teach religious education and to…
Saving Christians from Genocide
Two years after its release, this still photo, taken from an ISIS propaganda video, remains as haunting as…
Whence the Convert Problem?
I was initially perplexed by the recent dust-up over converts in the Catholic commentariat. It seemed an…
Gratitude So Burdensome?
Anthony Kronman thinks that Christianity contains the seeds of its own undoing. A “born-again pagan” and former…
Return of the Vocations Crisis
The recovery in priestly vocations seems to be over. Between 1978 and 2012, after the great crisis…
Pope Benedict’s Red Thread
One shouldn’t speak of a “cult of personality” when describing the papal devotional items that are offered…
A Church That Is A Home
Writing in Commonweal, Massimo Faggioli complains that the Catholic Church in America is dominated by converts—including me. Faggioli is a…
Ecumenism, Influence-envy, Etc.
Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of…
On Being a Lapsed Catholic
I was the first of my family to apostatize, and—since the family ends in me—I must be…
On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores
The Book of Revelation contains vivid imagery, wild analogies, and rhetoric rife with end-times judgment. John’s enigmatic…
The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
The Catholic Church is a bone in the throat of our secular culture. Of course we’ve all…
January 25, 2017, an Ode
My Students Two hundred kids bussed to the March for Life. Worried husband and wifewonder are…
Pride and Progress
When God judges Israel, he throws the world clock into reverse and makes time run backwards. In…
In Defense of Converts
Over at the National Catholic Reporter blog, Michael Sean Winters is pointing readers to a recent Al-Jazeera…
