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To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican IIby george weigelbasic books, 368 pages, $32 There probably will never be a consensus on Vatican II and its legacy:...

Quite some time ago, during his seminary days, a young priest friend of mine attended an introductory lecture on Revelation and the Scriptures. The lecturer told the class that...

Faith’s Place:Democracy in a Religious Worldby bryan s. turner and damien freemanconnor court publishing, 244 pages, $40 nCan the achievements of the modern West survive the eclipse of Christianity?...

In 1972, I took part in a Christian panel addressing senior students at a government high school in rural Australia. Afterward, a student approached me to discuss our Catholic...

There is a lot of goodness in prisons. At times, I am sure, prisons may be hell on earth. I was fortunate to be kept safe and treated well....

Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait by peter seewald ignatius, 260 pages, $24.95 When Peter Seewald published a book-length interview with Cardinal Ratzinger in 1996, it was met with silence...

Some secularists seem to like one-way streets. Their distaste for Christianity leads them to seek to drive it not only from the public square but even from any provision...

Can Islam and the Western democracies live together peacefully? Optimists seize on the assurance of specialists that jihad is primarily a matter of spiritual striving and that the extension...

Part of the pleasure in reading John Henry Newman is the huge range of topics he covered and the variety of styles he brought to them. As well as...