"We never know when grace is going to hit us" says Sister Helen Prejean at the start of our interview. The sixty-seven-year old author and activist knows what she is talking ...

Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...

Ray McGovern served God and country for 27 years as a member of the CIA by keeping his work secret. Today, along with a group of other Intelligence veterans, ...

Rev. James Martin--Jesuit priest and associate editor of America magazine--has written and edited numerous books on the spiritual life, including the memoir In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate ...

"The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceable conditions, once established, can be maintained" says primatologist Frans de Waal. "And if Baboons can do it, why ...

Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen are two of America's most esteemed contemporary fiction writers. They are also fast friends and Catholics (in very different ways, as our interview reveals)....

FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover once called Michael Lerner the most dangerous man in America because of his anti-Vietnam war activities. A sixties radical and member of the ...

As television newscasters were reporting every night for weeks back in April 2002 on the story of Israeli troops surrounding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and the Franciscan Monks who had ...

It seemed like only a year ago we had buried the Super Bowl censorship debate for good. When Paul McCartney took the stage with his piano in ...

Since the fall of the Berlin wall roughly 8 million Eastern European women have gone missing. Most have been trafficked into sexual slavery in North America, Asia and the ...