Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Pope’s Liturgical Liberalism
One of the more deft moves in Benedict’s apostolic letter motu proprio , titled ” Summorum Pontificum…
In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
Tearing humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism is all the rage today among academics, philosophers, and other…
The Ten Commandments of … What?
I present to you a document of some forty pages entitled ” Guidelines for the Pastoral Care…
That Seventies Show
A recent issue of Horizons , the journal of the College Theology Society , a clubby American…
Orwellian Monitors
A pastoral colleague finds it “Orwellian.” He is describing the proposal before the church council of the…
Response to Francis Beckwith
It’s a strange day when I have to agree with Richard Dawkins against Frank Beckwith, but Beckwith’s…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
David Brooks Adrift; The Family Chicken and Religious Egg
David Brooks is a most congenial fellow and as bright as a freshly polished penny. We were…
Antinomies of Limbo: Some Historical Milestones
Speaking only on my own behalf here, I was quite struck by the carefully balanced sobriety of…
Limbo and the Gospel Out of Season
Back in October, I wrote in this space about how the Vatican’s International Theological Commission (ITC) was…
Religion and Economics III: The Hoary Objections to Capitalism
We keep pulling¯out of bleak embers¯the objections to the American economic system that were already cold thirty…
Remembrance of Deaths Past ¯ and Present
We often hear these days about the problems and misdeeds of “organized” religion. We much more rarely…
Homeschooling and Christian Duty
By withdrawing from the larger culture, homeschoolers aid and abet the culture’s failings—or so, at least, the…
Desperately Seeking Absolution
The thirty-six-year-old man from Sunrise, Florida, had years’ worth of sin to unload. As he prepared to…
Religion and Economics, Again
Many falsely contrived stories have appeared in recent weeks about huge gains in the proportion of national…
