The idea of a monarch who engages with other faiths is not as novel as it may seem, and yet when it comes to King Charles III, soon to be crowned in Westminster Abbey, this is often overlooked. Continue Reading »
The Hebrew Bible and Talmud do not agree with Jesus in equating lust with adultery, but they indicate that the gap between these two sins is quite small. Continue Reading »
Without de Lubac’s pioneering work, the key texts of Vatican II would not be so richly scriptural and patristic in content and style. Continue Reading »
Against a media backdrop determined to frame Hungary as Europe’s black sheep, it certainly seems that the Holy Father would prefer, as he often says, to “smell of the sheep.” Continue Reading »
I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »
I bear a moral responsibility to uphold the truth and potentially disturb the comfort of those around me. Continue Reading »
The Christian vision of reality requires that we reject both our culture’s false surrender to algorithms and attempts at self-creation. Continue Reading »
Does music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning? Continue Reading »
If you see pornography as morally neutral and consider its moral value to be found in the way it is used rather than in the acts it involves, you are complicit in the desecration of the human form and in the erasure of what it means to be human. Continue Reading »
In the worst of times, First Things writers, readers, and supporters are blessed with the best of times. Continue Reading »
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