Why do the good suffer and the evil prosper? That’s the problem of evil, the mystery of iniquity. Major world...

In a Washington restaurant 70-some years ago, Sen Joseph McCarthy dined with aides, discussing what his re-election strategy would be....

With a record 72 million people designated as refugees world-wide, our charity fatigue seems pushed to its limit. With 26...

How do you explain the many deniers of global warming?  There must be a reason why we hear apparently responsible...

There is always a glint of truth in every heresy. Ask Arius. Disagreeing with official dogma did not start in...

What theme would you find in these five quotes from different parts of Scripture, from both testaments? It’s one we...

“Lies, damned lies and statistics” is how Mark Twain told of his displeasure with statistics. That is how we feel...

As my colleague columnist Michael Canaris wrote recently in these pages, England’s Cardinal John Henry Newman (+1890) famously said, “In...

In an age of individual rights and privileges, institutions are suspect. In fact, they are blamed for being stodgy stumbling...

To understand why the Gospels are the authoritative documents on Jesus as champion of social justice, it helps to see...