The other night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Michelle Wolf, who I’m told is a comedian, regaled the... Read More
The United States has for years been at the forefront of promoting religious freedom throughout the world. At a recent summit of the United... Read More
“How can practicing Catholics and evangelical Protestants support a president as immoral as Donald Trump?” This question assumes... Read More
Violence enters the human story from nearly the beginning: “While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed... Read More
Two days after the anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891), two dicasteries of the Roman Curia—the Congregation for the Doctrine... Read More
They represent a growing force in the conservative intellectual movement. You could even say they constitute a new literary genre. A... Read More
Last Thursday, May 17, two Vatican offices released the document Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones. The title, taken from the first... Read More
When targeting his message to white evangelical voters, President Trump has often focused on traditional priorities for social conservatives,... Read More
With the mass resignation of 34 Chilean bishops, we have reached the decisive moment of the Francis pontificate. How Pope Francis... Read More
“Without power you are dead in the world,” said Dan Meridor, former deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic... Read More
The LDS Church is transferring 169 of its 327 missionaries in Nicaragua to other countries due to political unrest, including anti-government... Read More
As I thought it might be, Bishop Michael Curry's sermon at Saturday's Royal Wedding was a cracker. It divided opinions, sure, but that is a... Read More
The Rohingya military group Arsa carried out deadly massacres and abductions of the Hindu community in Myanmar's Rakhine state last year, a... Read More
Bernard Lewis, an eminent historian of Islam who traced the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to a declining Islamic civilization, a... Read More
An Australian archbishop on Tuesday became the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world convicted of covering up child sex abuse in a... Read More
In the popular telling of Martin Luther's story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging the dogma of his day. “Here I stand, I can do no other,” he allegedly pledged to those who would decide his fate at the Diet of Worms in 1521. Neither interrogations nor papal excommunication deterred the former Augustinian monk from speaking his conscience. The Protest Read More
Don't be fooled by the superficially amicable split between the Boy Scouts of America and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The breakup, in fact, reflects a long festering period of incompatibility and will have consequences for both institutions and for the possibility of respectful disagreements in our federal republic. The immediate impetus for the divorce mi Read More
