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Last week, the nave of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was filled with transparent acrylic chairs, tightly packed, neatly lined up in rows to accommodate the crowd that attended...

The military junta that rules Cuba has just received a great shock. For the first time since Fidel Castro created a totalitarian communist dictatorship six decades ago, thousands of...

Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedomby robert louis wilken yale, 248 pages, $26 Among secularists, Christianity is associated with intolerance, largely because its...

This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation—traditionally pegged to October 31, 1517, the day Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses—and the celebration has...

Dead at last, dead at last. Fidel Castro has shuffled off this mortal coil, at the age of ninety. Unfortunately, his death comes a bit too late—about sixty years...

We should cheer any time a pope mingles with sinners. It’s what Jesus did, and what his vicar on earth is supposed to do, too. Sin and evil need...

Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. Cornell, 312 pages, $29.95 One of the most remarkable legends in the life of St. Francis of Assisi”and one...

In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief by James l. Kugel Free Press, 256 pages, $26 Whether we like it or not, death is...