Ross Douthat has written a learned yet highly readable analysis of the changing role of religion in American history.

Last weekend I had the privilege on spending time with nearly 100 college students who dedicate time throughout their busy academic years to ESTEEM a program aimed at empowering young adult Catholics to grow in their faith and to begin a lifetime of adult lay service to the Church at a variety of l

Catholic teaching on the church's rightsand the rights of all

Our presidential selection process is a civic and moral train wreck.

How can we school our hearts in God's call to justice?

I ve read a couple different stories over the last few days that offer a glimpse into the polarization of the Catholic Church on certain issues in this case homosexuality and the place of gay people in the Church First was the news that The Pilot the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston ran an

Even carefully mounted arguments meet with name-calling.

From 2011, Margot Patterson on the outbreak of sectarian strife.

What is the proper role of theology?