The latest issue of the Weekly Standard explores the ever-shrinking fertility rate in western countries and asks if the one-child policy is the latest Chinese import sweeping America The writer Jonathan V Last chronicles the implementation of China rsquo s policy and the potential economic and

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd continues her rant against a president she characterizes as an effete out of touch elitist who is willfully ignorant of the plights of the common person The column Myth and Madness begins as a discussion about Delaware s GOP nominee for Senate the much mali

From the October issue of the Atlantic an exhaustive profile of America rsquo s most powerful Catholic politico Vice President Joe Biden Writer Mark Bowden chronicles Biden rsquo s ascendency to President Obama rsquo s inner circle highlighting his transformation over the last two years from gaf

Back in 1990 Pope John Paul II issued Ex corde Ecclesiae a document that the late pontiff hoped would guide Roman Catholic universities and help them live out their Catholic identity In The Chronicle of Higher Education David B House looks back on the last twenty years of Catholic education wit

A good film speaks to the depths of the human condition eliciting joy sorrow empathy disgust euphoria hope sadness angst or love It is the rare exceptional film that causes the viewer to experience more than only a couple of these emotions within the span of a two hours though often we c

In Lyons France an impish figure is causing a rift between a conservative Christian group on one side and the rector of the Catholic Cathedral on the other According to France 24 a stonemason working on the renovation fashioned a gargoyle after his friend and longtime construction manager Ahmed

From the Springfield Republican The athletic director at Cathedral High School Springfield MA lost her job this week saying she was pressured to leave after marrying her female partner in August Christine M Judd who served as athletic director and dean of students said she is no longer an e

A Princeton Theological Seminary researcher claims that more and more American teens are adopting a mutant form of Christianity in which God is a divine therapist whose mission is to make them feel better about themselves and their world Kenda Creasy Dean says more American teenagers are embrac

A poll released last month by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds light on the impact of religion and the 2008 vote to abolish same-sex marriage rights in California The poll finds that today a slim majority of Roman Catholics 51 support same-sex marriage interestingly that number ju

A couple new polls just released are causing quite a bit of eye rolling and aggravation among President Obama rsquo s supporters The numbers show that an increasing percentage of Americans believe the president is Muslim a decreasing amount that he is Christian and a growing plurality who are uns