Faith and Fiction
Reading Javier Marías’ Berta Isla, I’d finally escaped my hospital bed and entered into a terrain where needles and IVs weren’t welcome.
Reading Javier Marías’ Berta Isla, I’d finally escaped my hospital bed and entered into a terrain where needles and IVs weren’t welcome.
All Cathedrals, I have realized, have a smell, a sound, and a feel that binds them to one another; it’s a congruity of design that unites believers wherever they go.
What critics miss about the Muslim-turned-atheist’s dramatic conversion
As in most of the great classics, the essential nature of gratitude in difficult circumstances is constantly emphasized.
The advent of scientific ‘progress’ and the marginalisation of the farming world have given the illusion that we can do without them. Climate change has put things back in their proper place, and we are seeing the return of rogations and processions in our countries.
After a new UK government proposal to register homeschooled children, Jews and other religious groups are concerned the government may enforce secular topics, such as gender ideology, in their schools.
It’s a safe bet that Archbishop Ulrich and his acolytes never asked themselves about the transmission of the faith and the salvation of souls when approving these supposedly aesthetic choices.
Rocked by years of scandals, with some still ongoing, the German Catholic church is haemorrhaging members at a record rate as its leadership proposes wildly liberal reforms to the faith.
The Chartres pilgrimage raises legitimate questions that the prelates cannot shirk.
When a culture loses the capacity for faith at all, be it religious or secular, and falls into a pit of relativism, it produces scientists all too willing to yield to the shrill demands of noisy, impassioned political activists.