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Catholic Christianity has a long tradition of being shaped from the margins.

The Bible miniseries is more miniseries than Bible.

Let’s be clear: half of the world’s poor are women, and the church’s effort to deprive the Catholic women among them of contraceptives, of the use of condoms that could protect them from HIV-AIDS, and of the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them.

Watching the History Channel hit with a Bible scholar.

The Bible helped him make the decision.

The latest bloggingheads.

But atheists not so much.

No matter whose name eventually emerges from the fog of smoke over the Vatican this week, it’s safe to say his face will soon grace the cover of Time. Just under the wire for Holy Week, the traditional season of religiously themed magazine covers.

Kidnapped Jesuit priest accused Bergoglio of virtually handing him over.