Archive
More than thirty-five years of First Things articles at your fingertips
Articles
Kathy Hochul, Champion of the Culture of Death
Yesterday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced her intention to sign the Medical Aid in Dying Act, a bill that will legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. Explaining how...
Hallowed Be Thy Names
Is confusion surrounding a doctrine sufficient reason to suppress it? The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith seems to think so. In the recent document Mater Populi Fidelis,...
Love Among the Ashes
February 14 this year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Rarer still is that it will happen in 2029 as well, twice in one decade....
Cleaning Up the Pope’s Mess
When Time magazine published its issue on the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, the columnist and pundit Peggy Noonan wrote the profile for her former boss,...
Notes Toward a Eucharistic Revival
On a Wednesday evening this past Lent, I joined a dozen Catholic young adults for an evening of prayer and friendship at an apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. After...
Review of Can God Be Trusted?
Can God Be Trusted? Finding Faith in Troubled Times by Thomas D. Williams FaithWords, 224 pages, $19.99 n America suffers from a crisis of trust. From the bedroom to...
Tolerance and Charity
Tolerance is a nice word, but is it a Christian virtue? Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver doesn’t think so, and his claim has occasioned no small amount of protest....
Today’s Practical Problem
In a recently published memoir, The Seal: A Priest’s Story , Fr. Timothy Mockaitis recounts his central role in an unprecedented legal drama. On a fairly routine visit to...
