Perhaps the most important thing about Abraham Lincoln—and what makes him so enduring in the popular memory—was the plain fact that he was so human.

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga during the Q & A following his Jan. 20 talk on "The Meaning of Mercy" at Santa Clara University.

Jesuit priest and Israeli citizen on the roots of violence in the Holy Land.

During my year in the United Kingdom I kept up obsessively with news of home. It is not a habit that is encouraged among students abroad, but I expected with the sort of headlines I followed I would not be missing much. How is it possible, I then reasoned, to read about controversial or troubling ev

Paul Ryan: There is a lot of untapped potential in this country; I have seen it firsthand.

Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.