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With his latest film the former teen idol appears to embrace Christian Reconstructionist theology.

Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”

Trayvon, the Toulouse murders, and the sanctity of childhood.

For the poet Javier Sicilia, a grieving father whose son was murdered by thugs last year, the pope’s visit is historic as well. Yet for him, and for those wounded voices he seeks to amplify, the pontiff’s arrival has less to do with pushing back secularism than with long-overdue attention to the ravages of Mexico’s drug wars.

A new book of popular history provides an exhaustive and detailed history of the brutal yet bureaucratic Inquisition, arguing that it helps explain what the world is today.

The enemy of my enemy is… my enemy too?

A political, not theological, co-belligerence.

Called Perkins “one of the godliest men I’ve ever known.”

In 2002, Catholic theologian Christine Gudorf predicted that “within a generation or two,” Catholic hierarchical teaching will change to encourage contraception in marriage and to allow some abortions.