Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in…
Hell Yes
Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
It is early still, and dark. Next to me my sister sleeps, but I wake with the…
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…
The Lamb in the Confessional
Chateaubriand’s autobiography, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, evokes a series of times and places as various as the…
Is There a Saving Truth?
This is the fourth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…
Using Christ to Sell Cars
In his brilliant critique of late-twentieth-century American culture, Technopoly, the late Neil Postman described what he called…
Filling Up What Is Lacking
Protestants are convinced that Christ’s crucifixion is utterly sufficient to atone for our sins. For many, this…
Evangelicalism After Billy Graham
As soon as word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of…
Parsing the “T”
About five years ago, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty…
Dynamics of Disembodiment
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Most…
The Lost Modernist
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poetby thomas dilworthcounterpoint, 432 pages, $39.50 The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragmentsby…
The Call to Gift
This text is adapted from the funeral homily for Don J. Briel, professor at the University of…
Rethinking “Mission Territory”
In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio, Pope Pius X decreed that, as of November 3…
