Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Wesley J. Smith

Should doctors or others be permitted to euthanize babies born with disabilities or assist the suicides of…

Imus and Me

Kenneth L. Woodward

The spectacle of Don Imus prostrating himself before the Rev. Al Sharpton, as if he were the…

Assault on Christendom

Michael Linton

Wow. We didn’t know. The “Hallelujah Chorus” is a paean celebrating Titus’ sack of Jerusalem and the…

Free Will and Physics

Robert T. Miller

John Rose wrote here yesterday concerning Einstein’s attempted reconciliation of complete physical determinism and human free will,…

Am I Free to Pour My Own Coffee?

Joseph Bottum

One rarely needs to argue in favor of free will. “Sir, we know our will is free,…

Einstein and Faith

John Rose

Walter Isaacson’s biography Einstein: His Life and Universe hit bookstands yesterday and promises to be a bestseller.…

Pope Benedict on Iraq

Richard John Neuhaus

In the context of his Urbi et Orbi address on Easter Sunday, Pope Benedict observed that “nothing…

The Fall of Rome: Season Two

Gerald J. Russello

What was perhaps the most pro-Christian show on television did not have a single Christian character in…

Good Friday 2007

Richard John Neuhaus

“Through Mary he received his humanity, and in receiving his humanity received humanity itself. Which is to…

René Girard for Holy Week

Edward T. Oakes

To read René Girard is to want to slap one’s forehead and say, “Of course, why didn’t…

Notes from Underground

Midge Decter

A word in your ear ¯A well-known physicist told me that a popular blogger told him that…

God and Man in Translation

Nicholas Frankovich

The Passion account read at Mass on Palm Sunday this year was taken from the Gospel of…

That Motu Proprio

Joseph Bottum

Having apparently gone on a silent retreat during Lent, Pope Benedict’s long-rumored motu proprio on the Latin…

Dodging One Bullet, Shot with Another

Joseph Bottum

Poor Tony Judt. The much-published author of such books as Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945…

New Theology, Old Economics

Stephen H. Webb

After years spent trapped in the academic equivalent of a singles bar, eagerly courting any discipline, no…