We began just after daybreak. One by one, the brigades filed out of the parking lot, each singing a different hymn. Turning away from the water, the lengthening line of pilgrims snaked up the hill toward a colossal statue of St. Isaac Jogues. This St. Isaac was not the bashful youth of prayer cards. . . . . Continue Reading »
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life tells the story of Austrian martyr Franz Jägerstätter and his wife Fani, who suffer as one body even when they are apart. Continue Reading »
As the sun comes up, the men go out from Garbage City and into the streets of Cairo. Some walk alone, carrying empty plastic sacks over their shoulders. Some drive trucks whose bare beds will soon be piled high with waste. Others are already returning with the trash they collected overnight. They . . . . Continue Reading »
God creates and redeems the world so that God’s holiness might be shared by a people empowered by grace to live holy lives. Continue Reading »
It is a scrupulously made short film, shot with several cameras in 2015. Arabic letters dance atop a black background, as if afloat on a whirling current of water, finally coming together and forming a droplet of closely intertwined characters. In Arabic calligraphy—one of Islam’s most . . . . Continue Reading »
Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu is being persecuted because the church refuses to register with the state or join the officially sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Continue Reading »
Confessional Lutheranism has experienced a renaissance in the past few years. Continue Reading »
Peter Hitchens is invariably witty and provocative. His recent essay (“Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten,” June/July) is no exception. Although diverting, it errs in at least one crucial respect: its assertion that the “judicial murders of Thomas More and John Fisher were political in origin, . . . . Continue Reading »
The papacy does not depend on the qualities of the men who take office. Continue Reading »
Two priests united by the ultimate witness of martyrdom give us hope and encouragement during these trying times. Continue Reading »
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