Conventional wisdom has it that a woman, ever-obsessed with getting married, starts pairing her first name with his last name before the end of date #1—and will ...

"How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? How many do you think you keep?"

When Pope John Paul II's would-be assasin, Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from a Turkish jail last week after serving almost 25 years behind bars—except for the complete transformation ...

By 1967, Martin Luther King had already been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in overturning the vicious Jim Crow laws that denied African-Americans their God-given freedom and equality ...

By the time he was in his late twenties, Peter Manseau had already received a bachelors degree in religion, spent time in a Trappist monastery considering a vocation to ...

Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ...

"Make no mistake" a priest friend of mine said to me during a recent phone call "it's a disaster." I had called to wish him a happy new year ...

Certain religions seem to be more interested in helping young adults date within their faith. Every synagogue seems to have a matchmaker. For those in the Mormon faith, every big city ...

As a cultural historian and author, Garry Wills has spent more than three decades researching and writing on historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan (his ...

Is Bruce Springsteen a Catholic songwriter? There's a strong argument to be made that he is. Catholic images can be found on many of his albums, especially his early ones, and ...