Catholicism

Like his predecessor John Paul II, Benedict XVI was present at all four sessions of the Second…

There are two fundamentally different battles raging in the current debates about evolution. The first pits nearly…

It was built by Polish immigrants—workers in the steel mill and the glass factory that sat along…

In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…

One often hears it said that modern science has adopted a methodology that takes no account of…

Thanksgiving Day. The little community of which I’m part doesn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner. We disperse to…

“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…

You gotta love this kind of stuff , Representative Sherrod Brown writing to Senator Mike DeWine last…

Whenever I hear about a “liberal-conservative standoff,” I feel the impulse, conciliatory soul that I am, to…

John Keegan, the eminent historian of warfare, writes that the trial of Saddam Hussein poses difficult questions…

Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United…

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pp. $23. Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, published in 1981,…

Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Translated by the author and Robert Hass Ecco. 102 pp. $23.95 Second…

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled…

In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…