Life of Faith

I have often seethed at the pigheadedness of bureaucrats. Their roles in the ecclesial and academic worlds…

It is no profound insight to note that one of the great challenges of our time is…

Nobody wants to live to be a hundred, except the guy who’s ninety-nine. Or so the saying…

Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…

Imagine a world without Protestantism. I don’t mean a world without Christians who are neither Catholic nor…

Readers of the April issue of First Things will have seen James F. Keating’s learned and perceptive…

Hopeful Pessimism by mara van der lugt princeton university press, 280 pages, $24.95 Is it possible to be…

Recent feats in so-called artificial intelligence have not only ignited Terminator-inspired apocalyptic fears but have also revived…

The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are…

Reports of the financial struggles and decline in membership among large American denominations have become so commonplace…

It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most…

DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good…

“There is such a difference between life and theory.”Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn The community of philosophers, and…

A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released the results of its most recent Religious Landscape…

Things don’t turn out as we expect. People don’t either. Take friendship as an example, or perhaps…