By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.

Many of us know the ruckus that emerged when Pope Francis tweeted "Idquo Iniquitas Radix Malorum," "Inequality is the root of evil." He got accused by the likes of Rush Limbaugh of being a Marxist.

Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement.

Renewing the Irish church from within.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University is now pretty much the dean of American sociologists of religion. Much like the late Rev. Andrew Greeley, Wuthnow is a very prolific author, penning a book about once a year.

The political divisions a theologian failed to foresee