Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.

"We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster."

If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?

Economic advantage is not the only goal of higher education.

I am a firm believer in the power of place.

Charlie Brown is dead, but Bob Dylan is 75 years old today.

Vin Scully, Southern California's soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.

This is not the first tangle between popes and politicians.

From the moment Daniel Berrigan took the stage at Cornell University on April 17, 1970, he and everyone else there knew he would be arrested.

Anyone with a Twitter account could put out a virtual shingle as a church expert.