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The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.…

Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…

Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…

A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…

Jonah Goldberg notes this front-page Washington Post story about the history of American immigration¯essentially claiming that debates…

In Rome, the station church today is St. John Lateran, the parish church of the Bishop of…

Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…

The Huge Event of the Week, February, 20-25 An ominously huge event overshadows reality this week, and…

And so, nine months into the pontificate, Benedict XVI has issued his first encyclical. (It is dated…

Reading by Osmosis You know ¯     My sister osmoted The Mill on the Floss ,     a marvelous…

“I’ve been looking for something not to like,” a reader writes, “and now I’ve found it. You’re…

Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…

Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark A. Noll Baker Academic.…

I write to you from Wales, my last address, confirmed now in the idleness which age and…

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828. By Walter A. McDougall. HarperCollins. 638 pp.…