The New Testament: A Translation by david bentley hart yale, 616 pages, $35 David Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair-minded reader by turns as startling, incisive, audacious, smug, shrewd, and quirky to the point of exasperation: everything, in . . . . Continue Reading »
Yom Kippur is coming. After forty days of special prayers and reflection, we enter into a day of repentance, resolve, supplication, and forgiveness. The center of Yom Kippur is atonement between us and God and reconciliation with our neighbors. As year follows year, there’s always the danger of . . . . Continue Reading »
Just in time for Halloween, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has published an English translation of the hitherto only-in-Latin rite of exorcism. Continue Reading »
All Christians can be shocked by the vitriol of sixteenth-century theological disagreements, but no one should be shocked by Luther’s anger over corruption, abuse, and injustice. Continue Reading »
Both catastrophist and triumphalist narratives of the Reformation, however sophisticated and nuanced the idiom, always oversimplify. Continue Reading »
In this time of anxiety in the Catholic Church, the words of St. Vincent of Lerins may offer some comfort. Continue Reading »
An interview with Fr. Giovanni Scalese, ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of Afghanistan. Continue Reading »
The rule limiting bishops to a single five-year term seems to only apply to some—those who question Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »
The Luther of Eric Metaxas's biography closely resembles the struggling young evangelicals Metaxas aims to inspire. Continue Reading »
True Christian reform always involves bringing into the present something the Church has laid aside or misplaced. Continue Reading »
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