Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Spotlight on the Vulnerable
Any major American newspaper would immediately fire a reporter who was caught using composite characters or inventing…
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising…
The Holy Family
Of the Passover festival in Jerusalem, St. Luke concisely reports, “When the festival was ended, Jesus stayed…
On the Incarnation
The following is a homily that was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.:…
Machiavellianism and Idealism in Foreign Policy
Is the US obligated to do what is best for its people regardless of justice, or is…
The Last Scapegoat
The following is a sermon given last Sunday at All Souls Church (Wheaton, IL) in the wake…
A Golden Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, the round headed lead’s quest to escape a melancholy brought on by…
Christmas and a World Upside-Down
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first…
Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?
The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…
From Rudolph to Bethlehem
Even though Rudolph had been around as a story book character well before 1949, Gene Autry’s recording…
All for Christ
By the time of her death this past summer, Elisabeth Elliot—wife, mother, missionary and writer— had become…
David’s Sin, David’s Son
The son of David has no name, none that the author of Second Samuel thought to record.…
Remembering Two Great Bishops
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped…
The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University
Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve…
