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As Archbishop Gomez argues, it is Catholics who “have a special duty today to be the guardians of the truth about the American spirit and our national identity.” In fact, Archbishop Gomez argues, immigrant Catholics “without proper documentation,” who share the values of “faith, family, and community” are “the key to American renewal.” Yes, Archbishop Gomez is arguing that unauthorized immigrants not only deserve the chance to adjust their status to live legally in the United States, but also hold the promise of a renewed and reinvigorated “next America.”

An American president addresses a Cairo audience with respect, and with appropriate language. What is truly remarkable is that Obama’s good manners seem remarkable to us.

Can religion help you stay young? Can staying young win you the White House?

Why is it that when conservative Christians talk about welcoming gays into the church they still can’t see their way to accepting lgbt folk as equal? When Elke Kennedy’s son Sean was killed on a…

A new book of essays argues that the American media suffers due to secularism and a general ignorance of religion. But is secularism really at the heart of it, or is it a far broader and longer-standing relationship with ignorance of our “enemies” that creates the Blind Spot?

Intolerance takes on a whole new flavor as Liberty University removes official sanction from campus Young Democrats because their position on abortion differs from school policy.

Campuses are pluralistic places with students and faculty who represent a diversity of religious traditions, races, ethnicities, and sexual expressions. “So, in regard to the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, the Catholic university should be a natural place to ask, ‘what are the lived implications of the Church’s teachings? How do you, in a reality-based way, negotiate the Church’s teachings with human lives?’”

Accused shooter’s pits “nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jews” against “Israeli nationalists.”

Highlights of a literary night in Rome: “You know what will happen,” she exclaims. “They’ll burn the books… before the furniture… before the clothes… they’ll burn all the books… They always do.”

More background on Bachmann’s fact-free world.