Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
1946: A New Dawn for Polish Catholics
I spend a few weeks each summer in Poland, where anniversaries are observed with special devotion. Poles…
Pope Francis and the Tridentine Mass
Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’s motu proprio “on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reform…
A New, Dark Left
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Horowitz joins the…
The Damage of Preferences
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gail Heriot joins the podcast…
Why I Read First Things
Why do I read First Things? I suppose, in a sense, there’s no place else to go.…
Fulton and the Future of Religious Liberty
After receiving more than 2,500 pages of briefing and after more than a half-year of post-argument cogitation,…
Learning Virtue from Hebrew Texts
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Mark Gerson joins the…
America Adrift
The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World—But Lost Her Way by James Kurth Washington…
Cardinal Pell’s Legacy
In March 2019, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, emeritus archbishop of Caracas, entered my office and saw above…
Why Boris Got Married in a Catholic Church
On May 29, U. K. Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson married his girlfriend Carrie Symonds—a…
The Oldest Cathedral and the Newest Challenge
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but…
Reactionary Feminism
When I was about ten, I began to notice that my father would leave the table after…
A Struggle for Public Worship in Canada
Aylmer, Ontario, is a town of some 7500 people on the north shore of Lake Erie. It…
A Most Unfortunate Roman Intervention
On May 7, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, S.J., prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,…
Critical Psalm Theory
In a detailed reflection at Mere Orthodoxy, William Murrell offers a trenchant criticism of my article “Evangelicals…
