When a revival of Robert Bolt’s marvelous play “A Man for All Seasons” opened on Broadway last October, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley, usually reliable for intelligent insights into theater and serious reflection on dramatic themes, wrote a strange review. Brantley seemed

Why do contemporary artists have such difficulty depicting holiness?

In "Angels & Demons," the church is on the side of the good guys.

Lucky for President Obama a picture is worth a thousand words and the picture of cheering students welcoming him to the University of Notre Dame seemed to dispel the weeks of controversy that accompanied his invitation to receive an honorary degree at Catholicism rsquo s flagship university Unluck

Well Notre Dame rsquo s commencement is nearly upon us The students rsquo parents have arrived The protesters are in place The President rsquo s speech is written Judge Noonan rsquo s speech is written ndash and his words should be greatly interesting to hear The event has thoroughly captiv

While all of the attention on Capitol Hill yesterday focused on the Senate Judiciary Committee rsquo s hearing on torture and how it is not only immoral and illegal it doesn rsquo t work But down the hall there was another hearing that warranted more attention that it got At the Committee on Hom

Pope Benedict XVI rsquo s visit to Israel has been haunted by the specter of his predecessor Pope John Paul II who was known for his positive initiatives toward the Jews But even in John Paul rsquo s time not every thing not even his pilgrimage for the Jubilee in 2000 was free of problems At

Roxana Saberi was released today from Evin prison in Tehran where she has been held since January on what the U S State Department has called ldquo baseless rdquo charges of spying for the United States government Sentenced in April to eight years in prison by Iran rsquo s Revolutionary Court