Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Heroic Domesticity
The Book of Proverbs seems to be a collection of wisdom-bytes, organized in a desultory manner. This…
Thou Art a Priest Forever
Abolish the Priesthood,” reads the provocative title of the latest Atlantic cover story, penned by James Carroll.…
Persecution and Constitutional Theocracy
The Interim Report on global persecution, issued at Easter by the Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of…
Theology Matters
A nineteenth-century German rabbi said that it is far more important for God to describe Man than…
Faith Amid Corruption
The Catholic Church in the West is full of corruption—financial, sexual, and spiritual. We are forced to…
The Living Stones of Notre-Dame
This homily was preached at the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, April 18, 2019, at…
Immigration: An Exchange
In “Immigration Idealism,” Matthew Schmitz argues plausibly that Christian views on immigration are distorted by the same…
Lessons from Father Schall
When Fr. James V. Schall (January 20, 1928–April 17, 2019) retired from teaching political philosophy at Georgetown…
The Devout and the Nones
According to new data from the General Social Survey, America is increasingly divided between the very religious…
A Proposal for Persuasion
This essay is a response to “Against the Dead Consensus.” The philosophical premise of “Against the Dead…
9/11 in France
This interview with Rémi Brague, conducted by Jérôme Cordelier, was originally published in the French weekly Le Point.…
Fire in the Cathedral
It doesn’t matter how the fire started. The cause of such disasters is always sin. Perhaps it…
The Easter Effect Today
Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the…
Notre-Dame, France’s Parish
When Paris was liberated from German occupation on August 25, 1944, there was no doubt in General…
Benedict Speaks
Sex, scandal, the Church, and a general atmosphere of disintegration: That’s the main focus of Pope Emeritus…
