Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Against the Lunatics
Over thirty years ago, Leszek Kołakowski opined that Nietzsche’s expose of the bankruptcy of Enlightenment humanism had…
Giving Our All
This year’s Kavanaugh hearings revealed just how far progressives will go to keep a religious conservative out…
A Time to Think Boldly
The ground is shaking under our feet. What we once thought stable is giving way. Consider our…
Pope Francis’s Warning
Pope Francis’s famous 2013 exhortation at a World Youth Day gathering in Rio de Janeiro,“¡Hagan lío!” (“Make…
Advent Arrow
St. Bernard of Clairvaux famously explained that there are three comings of the Lord. He comes on…
Pray for the Pope
Every day after my rosary I say a Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and Salve Regina for the…
Lord, You Know It All
In the spring of 1908, an Irish priest was walking through the slums of Great Yarmouth in…
Cleansed and Conformed to God’s Will
Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune,…
A Conversation Between Two Converts
Below is an excerpt from the newly published book of interviews with Catholic converts, Mind, Heart, and…
Restoring Trust
On Monday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will convene for its 2018 Fall General Assembly—a…
Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Last week, twenty-one years after its initial publication, Joshua Harris officially denounced and discontinued publication of his…
We Shall Meet
Nature bestows a great gift on those who dwell in the Northern hemisphere: The seasons conveniently align…
Death at Tree of Life
On Saturday, October 27, 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers shot eleven Jews dead and wounded nine at Pittsburgh’s…
Shifting Tectonic Plates in Eastern Christianity
ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences…
Anti-Semitism and the Rise of Rage
News of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh hit me like a punch…
