Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Doing Theodicy

Jerry L. Walls

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evilby john g. stackhouse, jr.oxford university press, 190…

Revolutionary of the Heart

Geoffrey B. Gneuhs

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

Pope John Paul II

In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…

The Gift of Salvation

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In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed…

Pastoral Concerns

James Nuechterlein

In his wise and engaging essay elsewhere in this issue (“I Do?”, p. 14), David Blankenhorn expresses…

Atrocities Not Fit to Print

Nina Shea

Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America…

The Denomination Called Catholic

David R. Carlin

By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to…

China’s Christian History

Charles Horner

For more than four centuries, the study of China and the conversion of its people have been…

The Seed of the Church

Andrew J. Bacevich

Their Blood Cries Out: The Growing Worldwide Persecution of Christians by Paul Marshall. Word, 304 pages, $12.99.…

The Nuns’ Story

M. S. Leach

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara. Harvard University Press, 751…

The Styles of Modern Politics

Peter Berkowitz

The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism by michael oakeshott, edited by timothy fuller yale…

Values, Virtues, and John Paul II

Thomas D. Williams

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

Edward Idris Cassidy

Relations between Catholics and Evangelical Christians have traditionally been rather cool at their very best. While Catholics…

Last Testament

Christian de Chergé

On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of…

The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre

Edward T. Oakes

Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…