Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Nothing Compares to Allah
Remember Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer-songwriter with an ethereal voice and a penchant for troublemaking? Well, Sinéad…
The Theology of Hope
Austrian Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert is former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy…
In Persona Christi Capitis
In the wake of the McCarrick revelations and the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, I…
Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
We Will Not Yield
In 1977 my parents came to the difficult conclusion that there was no future for them and…
No Salvation Without the Other
In the aftermath of Archbishop Viganò’s fresh detailing of Catholic clerical scandal and his call for the…
Unmasking Monsters
Midway through Revelation, John sees a pantomime of the Gospel’s beginning, enacted in the sky (Rev. 12).…
Fr. Gavancho’s Fate
In July, a new associate pastor arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in downtown Santa Barbara,…
St. Michael, Pray for Us
I’m a student of pubs. Maybe it’s because my dad owned one. Maybe it’s because they smell…
The House of God Will Not Be Closed
Hilaire Belloc once said of the Church: “No merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would…
Compelling Tolerance
Jack Phillips barely had time to catch his breath. Less than a month after the Supreme Court…
A Crisis of Infidelity
At the heart of the recent Catholic scandals is infidelity—literally the lack of faith. There are priests,…
Boris and the Burqa
Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…
