Mark W. Roche is the Joyce Professor of German and former dean of arts and letters at the University of Notre Dame.

Another look at the story of Mary Magdalene and interpretations of her throughout history.

Walter Scheidel argues in "Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity," that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.

This book is meant to arouse Christians, both their pastors and congregations, to the agonies and injustices perpetrated against Jews in the past and presen

Seeing the proselytizing success of the Jesuits in Eastern Europe, some Orthodox clerics decided to defend their expression of the faith using the very tools that were challenging it.

A new look at one of Catholicism's most popular saints.