Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Keep in mind that this…
Keep in mind that this is intended as high laudation. Ken Johnson, art reviewer of the New…
A number of readers have…
A number of readers have asked whether I will be responding to Garry Wills’ long article in…
The Church’s Way of Speaking
When St. Augustine abandoned the teaching of rhetoric in Milan to enroll for baptism, he asked St.…
Theology for Physicists
Science and the Trinity: the Christian Encounter with Reality by John Polkinghorne Yale University Press. 208 pp.…
The Bishops in Council
Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Deist Minimum
As Christianity spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, it became apparent that the biblical doctrines concerning God, morality,…
The Laughter of the Philosophers
The Humor of Kierkegaard by thomas c. oden princeton university press, 328 pp. $16.95 paper My favorite…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope
Christopher Lasch’s untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in…
The Church as Culture
Last spring on a trip to Erfurt, the medieval university town in Germany famous for its Augustinian…
Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson
The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…
Alone in the Academy
I was starting the second year of a Ph.D. program in U.S. history at the University of…
Christ and Nothing
As modern men and women—to the degree that we are modern—we believe in nothing. This is not…
October Letters
Who’s in Hell? Avery Cardinal Dulles’ characteristically clear and comprehensive article “The Population of Hell” (May) brings…
