Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Catholic Convert’s Perspective on the Jubilee Year
As a former low-church Protestant who joined the Catholic Church, I had to adjust to its reliance…
Theology for a Brave New World
In this episode, Fr. Thomas Joseph White joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
Democracy Needs Religion—but Which?
German sociologist Hartmut Rosa characterizes modernity as the product of a triple acceleration. Technology speeds up movement…
Just How Big Is Britain’s Religious Revival?
A few months ago, the Bible Society released a new report on Christianity in England and Wales.…
A Rahnerian Surprise
Karl Rahner, S.J. (1904–1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a…
Bishop Barron, the German Church, and the Renewal of Faith
On July 27, Bishop Robert Barron was awarded the Josef Pieper Prize in Münster, Germany, joining the…
St. John Henry Newman, Doctor for the Modern World
In 1874, three years before St. Francis de Sales was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, John…
The Death of Mainline Protestantism
If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like…
The Substance of Our Lives
While I was in college, the local priest got me to come along with him on his…
Jesus Is the Key to All Scripture
To the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus explains “things concerning himself in all the Scriptures,”…
No, Churches Still May Not Endorse Political Candidates
In the latest example of journalists and the online commentariat misstating the nuances of a high-stakes legal…
Leavers, Yearners, and Returners
You could fill a small library with books from the last twenty years devoted to the erosion…
Out of the Wilderness
When the agnostic Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch died, he asked that his funeral be conducted…
Abolishing Ourselves
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…
A Straight Line to the Pulpit: The Legacy of John MacArthur
In the middle of the twentieth century, with suburbs and churches exploding with intensity, novelist Peter De…
