On Friday night my wife and I went to see the new and enthusiastically reviewed quot Hair quot on Broadway Though I was born in 1969 and had regular exposure to quot Jesus Christ Superstar quot and quot Godspell quot in the 1970s I had never heard nor seen all of quot Hair quot My wif

ldquo Tell me what you eat rdquo the French gastronomist Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously quipped ldquo and I will tell you what you are rdquo By that standard Americans might be said to be as corny as Kansas Corn represents the central staple of American agribusiness American cattle fatt

I hate to say quot I told you so quot but I did And the truth be told in this instance I do not hate telling you that I was prescient when I predicted the upcoming visit of President Obama to Pope Benedict would occasion gnashing of teeth within the conservative blogosphere What has been esp

Going through the stack of letters to America each week can be a profound education.

Just one person can bring springs of new life into a stress-filled world.

On the moral demands of environmental policy

From our pages: April 13, 1968

Silver-Tongued Regarding the online article “Barack Obama and Vatican II,” by John W. O’Malley, S.J. Flourishing rhetoric is expected during a political campaign (at least in the United States), but one quickly tires of it. I agreed with very little that President George W. Bush di

Some U.S. bishops and Catholic university presidents are preparing for a dialogue aimed at reaching a consensus about speakers on their campuses.

'The Shack' has become both a fascination and an object of contempt to millions of Christians.

If you are looking for a book that trashes and thrashes the United States you will not find it here Instead Godfrey Hodgson provides readers with a grand tour through American history that offers a friendly but stern hand to explain our sense of exceptionalism in the world an especially pertinen

"The Stoning of Soroya M." is a haunting reminder of the Gospel story of the woman caught in adultery.

Iran's Bloody June; Twittering in Tehran; Military Spending Soars

What the church can do for couples struggling with infertility

The spirituality of administration

What Julian of Norwich can teach Rhonda Byrne

A conference in New York took up a topic that has been much debated in recent years in arenas ranging from popular culture to papal addresses.

Web only: A life in pictures

One of the biggest challenges is to make sure that the greater openness shown by Muslim leaders filters down to the average Muslim.