May we hope that all faiths can forever put behind them the use of censorship or violence against writers in the defense of religion.

Why was Giordano Bruno burned at the stake?

As you may have discerned from Matt Malone s posts a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams the second president that is not the composer Last night I watched an advance copy of the final episode of HBO s stupendous series John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linne

Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.

In his 90th year, the indefatigable historian John Hope Franklin has written his life story. More than any other scholar, Franklin has made African-American history an essential part of American history.

The other day I asked a friend of mine, an old-timer and a longtime baseball fan, if he remembered the 1955 World Series. He thought a moment, and said: "Oh, yeah, wasn't that a Dodger-Yankee series?" Yes, it was. But 1955 was special.