Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Our Claim on God’s Mercy

Thomas Petri, O.P.

This text was originally delivered as a homily on the first Sunday of Advent. Blessed John Henry…

Serve Somebody

Francesca Aran Murphy

Once, as an impecunious PhD student, I decided I had to forgo my weekly Hill Street Blues…

Christian Freedom

Dan Hitchens

Earlier this year, when the British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told an incredulous TV presenter that he objects…

A Harvest of Witnesses

William Mumma

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…

An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”

Thomas G. Guarino

In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…

So Long, Age of Letters

K. E. Colombini

The other day, I sat down to write a letter to our college-age daughter, who is spending…

Our Misguided War on Legalism

Joshua Gibbs

I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…

Everything Is Outside the Text

Francesca Aran Murphy

Rémi Brague famously described Europe as having an “eccentric identity.” He meant that Europe’s culture is one…

A Christian Strategy

Adrian Vermeule

The problem is the relentless aggression of liberalism, driven by an internal mechanism that causes ever more…

Pope Francis, Exorcist

Charlotte Allen

Just in time for Halloween, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has published an English translation of…

The Church in Afghanistan

Giovanni Scalese

Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…

Preaching, An Art of Division

Peter J. Leithart

You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings,” a voice tells John…

Works of Mercy

Dale M. Coulter

There is a quiet rethinking of Reformed theology by some African-Americans who had previously embraced it. I…

Does Theology Exist Outside of Christianity?

Francesca Aran Murphy

Is there such a thing as Sikh theology? Are there Muslim theologians? Do members of the Buddhist…

We Found Our Joy in Latin

Matthew Schmitz

Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…