Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Saturday Night Live Tackles Abortion

John Murdock

Saturday Night Live has long felt dated. The skits telegraph and then often explain their jokes. Moments…

The Rise of Byzantium

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Paul Stephenson joins the podcast to…

My Memories of Midge Decter

R. R. Reno

Let me think about it,” Midge Decter said. It was early in 2014. I was looking for…

Les Murray the Misfit Poet

Stephen Schmalhofer

When the great Australian poet Les Murray died in April 2019, he left an incomplete volume of…

The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools

Mark Bauerlein

How many Catholic schools are really just public schools with a Mass requirement attached, plus an elective…

Protecting Orthodox Jewish Schools

Rabbi Moshe Hauer

In the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, Amish Americans challenged Wisconsin’s compulsory education law, which…

Fire Upon the Earth

Charles J. Chaput Thomas Weinandy O.F.M. Cap.

Contempt for reli­­gious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars such…

What Happened in the French Election

Theodore Dalrymple

When a man who is widely disliked or even hated wins a political election by a crushing…

Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

Hans Feichtinger

Ever so slowly, the “Synod on Synodality” is beginning. A preparatory process of “listening and dialogue” in…

Artists and Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Many artists have grappled with how to depict abortion. Ernest Hemingway wrote an entire short story about…

No “Just Wars”?

George Weigel

Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able…

The Decline of the American Election

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Hans von Spakovsky joins the…

The Cancellation of Russian Culture

Gary Saul Morson

In the medieval era, when a thinker successfully claimed divine revelation, he placed his words beyond dispute.…

When Evil Is Called Good

Carl R. Trueman

Last week, three news stories threw into sharp relief the ambitions of the sexual revolutionaries who govern…

Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor

Mark Gottlieb

Those who knew Alice von Hildebrand (“Lily” to her family and friends) could be forgiven for thinking…