Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Miller: The Wielgus Affair
Back in December, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Stanislaw Wielgus to be the metropolitan-archbishop of Warsaw. News…
RJN: Wielgus
For those who love Poland and admire the vitality of Catholic faith in that country, developments surrounding…
Rose: Free Will and the NY Times
After printing an evenhanded op-ed on neurology and the paranormal (registration required), the New York Times carries…
Rose: Junior Fellowships Available
A junior fellowship at First Things is an intellectually gratifying experience for a young writer or scholar…
RJN: A Doubtful Neophiliac
Mark C. Taylor of Williams College is among the most nimble of nimble minds perched on the…
Miller: Reading the Bishops Rightly
Speaking to the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia last spring, Fr. Neuhaus said, “When it is…
Bottum: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died yesterday, slipping away at age sixty-five after a long illness. A professor at Emory…
RJN: On St. John and Mormons
With stunning abruptness we’re jostled from the Christmas Mass (the Christ Mass) to the feast of St.…
Bottum: Lawyers and the Life of the Mind
Are lawyers intellectuals? They’re smart, certainly, as a class, and they work primarily with their minds. But,…
JB: Duke University Rape Case
In response to last week’s news that the Durham prosecutor has finally dropped the rape charges against…
Linton: Messiahs for This Christmas
Which Messiah ? It’s not a theological question; it’s a question about what to listen to when…
Anderson: Peter Singer’s Animals
Animal-rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer¯a bioethics professor at Princeton’s…
Bottum: Housekeeping
If you look over at the top of the lefthand column, here at the First Things website,…
Bottum: Christmas in New York
Another Christmas Rerun ¯this one from the new December issue of First Things . Shouldn’t you be…
Bottum: PS Christmases Past
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯ writings on the season from our authors through the…