JFK Loved LDS, You Should Too!

April 27, 2011
Kelly Smurthwaite at ksl.com writes that while prominent news outlets are citing the Mormon faith of two GOP...

Our Sense of Knowing Better

January 14, 2011
From Genevieve Yue's "That Old Time Religion" at Reverse Shot: In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard Robertson premiered the phantasmagoria, a moving...

He Takes Them Off

January 11, 2011
rom Jill Lepore, at The New York Times News Desk blog: No one knows why Jared Lee Loughner...

Democracy and Faith

November 7, 2010
From Jan-Werner Müller's article in the November/December Boston Review titled, "Making Muslim Democracies": In the case of Christian Democracy, believers...

Religious Studies in Illinois

July 12, 2010
An excerpt from the letter that Dr. Kenneth J. Howell sent to his University of Illinois "Introduction to...

Good Catholics

March 1, 2006
01 March 2006 Alan Cooperman reports on the joint statement released yesterday by 55 Catholic Democratic House representatives, as...

Culture Without the Culture Wars

November 30, 2005
Erica Ogg: In his “800 Words” column in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Dan Neil, on location in Patagonia,...

Limbo Babies

November 30, 2005
The second-hottest story to come out of the Vatican this week concerns the eternal souls of babies — unchristened...

Demystify

November 28, 2005
National Catholic Reporter journalist John Allen talks with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross about his new book, Opus Dei: An...

Cracking the Code's Controversy?

September 8, 2005
Nellie Day: Kentucky’s Messenger-Inquirer, like many other American papers, tries to present an unbiased look at the soon-to-be film...

21 September 2004 Daily Links

September 21, 2004
Exasperated by cell phones ringing during mass, four Catholic churches in Mexico are illegally jamming the cell phone signals with Israeli-made...

09 July 2004 Daily Links

July 9, 2004
“In April, Julee Lacey, 33, a Fort Worth, TX, mother of two, went to her local CVS drugstore for...

19 June 2004 Daily Links

June 19, 2004
The Islamist website that last Wednesday posted threats to kill American hostage Paul Johnson yesterday posted photographs of his...
Feature

The Catholic Divide?

June 15, 2004
Culture warriors try again with the “Catholic Divide.” By Kathryn Joyce This week, The New York Times’s John Tierney dispensed a reassuring...

Who You Calling Feminist?

May 4, 2004
Revealer contributor Julia Rabig writes: The unfolding of abuse scandals that accelerated in the Catholic Church over the past few years has...

Sabbath Reading

April 4, 2004
Last Sunday, we wrote briefly about Peter Steinfels, a religion reporter at The New York Times and a popular pundit on things...

God Hut

October 30, 2003
Jewish architect Richard Meier‘s vision for the Catholic church has just opened in a working class suburb of Rome. There’s...

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