Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
Blame It on W
We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a…
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007): An Appreciation
In the early 1950s, or so I’m told, two young men who would later come to world…
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
What Is Anglicanism?
Few would deny that the Anglican Communion is in crisis. The nature of that crisis, however, remains…
Zen in Venice: An Interview
On July 22, 2007, Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong lunched with Benedict XVI in Lorenzago di…
70 or 70 x 7?
The New American Bible (NAB), an unfortunate translation episcopally imposed upon Catholics for readings at Mass, has…
Amnesty International’s Moral Incoherence
This May, First Things broke the news of Amnesty International’s change of policy from neutrality to pro-abortion…
Sharing Chores?
My suspicions were aroused when I saw a headline to a July 1 Associated Press story in…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
The First Openly Muslim Priest
The day before the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops voted to confirm the church’s first openly gay…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
The Neo-Blanshardites vs. the Evangelicals
Recently, when the Supreme Court declined to strike down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting the killing…
Illegal Immigration and Our Corruption
With the failure of the immigration bill still causing murmurs across the nation, the topic of immigration,…
Harold O.J. Brown (1933–2007)
Whether in foul weather or fair, a bicyclist would sometimes suddenly emerge from an opening in the…
