Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Doing Theodicy
Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evilby john g. stackhouse, jr.oxford university press, 190…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
The Gift of Salvation
In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed…
Pastoral Concerns
In his wise and engaging essay elsewhere in this issue (“I Do?”, p. 14), David Blankenhorn expresses…
Atrocities Not Fit to Print
Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America…
The Denomination Called Catholic
By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to…
China’s Christian History
For more than four centuries, the study of China and the conversion of its people have been…
The Seed of the Church
Their Blood Cries Out: The Growing Worldwide Persecution of Christians by Paul Marshall. Word, 304 pages, $12.99.…
The Nuns’ Story
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara. Harvard University Press, 751…
The Styles of Modern Politics
The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism by michael oakeshott, edited by timothy fuller yale…
Values, Virtues, and John Paul II
Few words can rival “values” for popular appeal in the 1990s. Heightened awareness of the link between…
That They May All Be One: The Imperatives and Prospects of Christian Unity
Relations between Catholics and Evangelical Christians have traditionally been rather cool at their very best. While Catholics…
Last Testament
On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of…
The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…