In 1929 shortly before he was to leave Germany to become cardinal secretary of state the then papal nuncio and future pontiff Eugenio Pacelli expressed his apprehension about Hitler ldquo This man is completely obsessed rdquo he said ldquo All that is not of use to him he destroys all th

A few weeks ago I spent a muggy evening on my front porch ruminating: I wondered how it was that in a lifetime of reading I had seldom encountered a book whose primary character was a mother.

What the church needs to know about the next generation of pastoral ministers

Alan Jacobss criticism is reserved not for bad prose, but for bad theology,

Arthur Koestler was a man of controversy in death as in life.

Jonathan Alter's account of President Obama's first year in office