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It is hard in these dark times not to think of the Book of Revelation. And yet, it is a book of hope that proclaims: “Look! The lion from...

Do you remember when you toured college campuses and heard admission counselors and deans praise their school for fostering “critical thinking”? Did you ever ask yourself if there was...

The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europeby david i. kertzer random house, 512 pages, $20 Books like this are rare. The...

The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogioby hubert wolf vintage, 496 pages, $17 Sex sells, all the more if one throws in Vatican secrets and conspiracy. Long before ­Frédéric Martel’s In the...

A few days ago, one of my undergraduate students asked me, “Why do so many people believe that God is like an old man in the clouds?” I responded,...

In January of this year, the U.S. Supreme court declined to intervene in a case in which the prosecutor wants to force Fr. Jeff Bayhi, a priest of the...

Just as every Easter long-falsified stories about Jesus are warmed up by journalists to increase the print-run of their magazines, so similar nonsense is brought forth whenever issues of...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in March 2013, many wrote about the significance of the choice of his papal name, Francis. Commentators insisted that this symbolized his...

The notion that women are rabbitlike “breeders” who should produce as many children as possible is harmful and false—as is the common assumption that this idea originated in Christian...

The proposal of Cardinal Walter Kasper about the possibility of remarried Catholics to receive communion has attracted much attention. His main idea, namely to accept Orthodox teaching on divorce,...