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Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisisby thomas s. kiddyale, 200 pages, $26 Many years ago I was sitting in the basement of my Southern...

Even as an increasing share of U.S. Catholics are Latino, Catholics account for a declining share of the country’s Latinos. Roughly one-third of Catholic adults in the U.S. are...

Less noticed than references to homosexuality in Pope Francis’ widely circulated  remarks  to the press on the Rio-to-Rome papal airplane was this comment on developing a theology of women:...

Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author Fr. Andrew Greeley died last night at the age of eighty-five. He had been mentioned in our pages no small number of times...

A recently released  report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians (a nonprofit group based in Austria) supplements and confirms Paul Coleman’s article in our June/July issue about discrimination...

In an address that is hard not to read as a rebuke of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis delivered a searching reflection on pastoral ministry to a gathering of...

Pope Francis’ comments yesterday about faith, atheism, and salvation have apparently struck a chord: They made headlines and were, for a time, the second most-shared item on Reddit. In...

Speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremonies yesterday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan told graduates that Mary is “not just our patroness, but our model.” He explained: She gave God’s son a human...

Ruth Graham flags a funny problem in the  essay that Matthew Cantirino shared  yesterday: Originality has never been more valued in wedding ceremonies, and never harder to produce. She...

Commonweal has a triple feature on Thomas Nagel’s much-discussed  Mind and Cosmos with contributions from philosopher Gary Gutting, biologist Kenneth R. Miller, and physicist (and First Things advisory council...

The jury has found Kermit Gosnell guilty on three charges of first-degree murder of babies, according to reporter J. D. Mullane , and not guilty of a fourth murder...

The Journal of Medical Ethics  sparked a firestorm last February when it ran the article  “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”  They have now devoted an entire issue...

A recent inquiry from a college instructor in search of philosophical arguments on the morality of abortion inspired us to compile the below list of resources, which, though far...

An art restorer at the Vatican has discovered what may be the first Western painting of Native Americans, hidden under grime in a fresco finished in 1494. The painting...

Rorandelli Rocco for The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal ran a nice feature  this weekend on the Clericus Cup, ”a [soccer] tournament that pits squads from 16 seminaries...