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Is polygamy the next same-sex marriage? Fundamentalist Mormons, Muslims, and others argue that federal and state statutes on religious freedom protect the practice. Some liberals have joined the cause,...

Ecclesial Movements and Communities: Origins, Significance, and Issues by Brendan Leahy New City Press, 200 pages, $16.95 Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles tells a story of a...

In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells, it is important to keep some basic facts...

The Constitution of the United States of America is a majestic old document, but in our age of legal realism the common wisdom is that judges do with it...

“They were smuggling . . . books?” exclaimed the young woman incredulously. She had seen me reading Brian Moynahan’s God’s Bestseller as we sat waiting in the jury pool...

“History is God’s theatre, . . . God’s jousting place.”                                      ...

In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes for a musician all that he was unable to do for himself...

Federal courts in Louisiana recently reached the conclusion that too much thinking about the difficult issues involved in evolution can be downright dangerous. The Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education...

Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by richard rhodes knopf, 384 pages, $15.25 Lonnie Athens, a little-known criminologist at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, has...