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“Public Enemies” resurrects a perennial tragic hero for one more ritual slaughter.

The artist James Ensor had a wicked sense of humor and was obsessed with religious imagery. View slide show.

In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.

New disclosures have prompted a debate about how government-sponsored assassination should be viewed in light of the Catholic moral tradition.

THE VATICAN -- The church’s positions on bioethical issues and matters of global social justice received marked attention during Pope Benedict XVI’s meeting with President Barack Obama on July 10 in Rome. Mr. Obama had traveled to Rome for the Group of 8 summit, an annual meeting of the

The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,

Cardinal óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga denied that the church supported the coup détat.