American Politics

The desire of the scientific community for embryonic stem cells is not diminishing. Indeed, it is increasing,…

Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over…

Benedict’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est—“God Is Love”—is dated the Feast of the Nativity but was not…

Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex-abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the…

A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…

James R. Stoner, Jr. Who stripped the public square and left it naked? That puts the matter…

Loved that first book”it’s got no equal” but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…

It is death by philosophy, it is murder by decree, and the curiously named “freedom to die”…

Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles has been both garnering praise and taking a drubbing for his…

If you look over in the left-hand column of this web page, you’ll find a link for…

GOOD FRIDAY 2006 “Through Mary he received his humanity, and in receiving his humanity received humanity itself.…

Moving to less controversial topics, George Will had a thoughtful column Sunday before last on new efforts…

When these holy days roll around, segments of the media, as reliably as clockwork, roll out the…

On Saturday, a banquet was held in Washington, D.C., to mark the establishment of a new center…

On November 29, 2005, the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome released an instruction concerning the admission…