
The religious world is buzzing this week with the unusual results of the Episcopal Church's latest General Convention. That venerable institution has voted, among other things, to ...
A reader has registered surprise that I am not an atheist. I am surprised that he’s surprised. Theism, with its vision of an orderly universe and a moral creature created in ...
The Blackwater affair has all the clichéd elements of Hollywood conspiracy "thrillers": an atrocity cover-up, a right-wing Christian villain at the helm of a powerful ...
Last month marked the fourth anniversary of what must be seen as the most exciting event in the Catholic Church in this writer's lifetime: the election of Joseph Cardinal ...
In 1914, on the very eve of the Great War, G.K. Chesterton published his humorous novel The Flying Inn. The story concerned a Turkish plot to invade England, all with the ...
As Christians around the world wait by the tomb, reenacting the vigil of the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, we do our best to replicate their grief, and gratitude, and hope. ...