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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.”

It’s not as if churchgoing has been a reliable indicator of a president’s goodness, but still, it might be politically useful for Obama to sit in a pew from time to time.

In his address to graduates, Obama urged “common ground” on abortion. The Rev. Dr. Carlton Veazey argues that if you accept that women are full persons in the eyes of God and the law, then you cannot stop working for women’s control over childbearing.

A reality show about a failing family. The upholding of Prop. 8. There’s hypocrisy afoot in our culture.

New studies show that marriage is a good thing. For everyone. So all those arguments that same-sex marriage will weaken the institution? Not true.

Religious groups used scare tactics, and a lot of money, to sway the vote on Prop. 8—so why are some of their leaders being welcomed at the “progressive” table?

Four young Muslims attempted to bomb a New York Synagogue committed to interfaith work. A Muslim and a Rabbi point to the bad theology behind terrorism and the path forward.

Specters abound in the contemporary world, and they are every bit as terrifying as Hamlet’s were. Think of the invisible, ghostly threat of “terror”; think of the terrifying specter of one’s life’s savings vanished in an instant.

Conservative bogeyman? Militant black nationalist? Cool screen-print? This quintessential intellectual was so much more.

Is it time for a non-Catholic on the Supreme Court? Or, put another way, should we not insist that the Court be religiously diverse?