Francis’ prescriptions on the environment are fanciful at best, and represent the latest Vatican lurch to the Left.

American progressives want religion to be a pursuit that people engage in privately—rather like pornography.

Brigitte Berger, 1928 – 2015

The left likes to look for the “root causes of poverty”. A better project would be looking for “the root causes of wealth”. It would be helpful if Catholic social teaching supported this project.

Why are parts of Germany formerly under the enforced secularism of the Communist party rediscovering charismatic religion?

The 100th year anniversary of one of the great crimes of the 20th century provides a moment to reflect.

A pizza shop, a national uproar, and the emergence of a new class configuration.

A look at India, Israel, Algeria, Russia and China shows just how secularization and desecularization have worked in tandem through the years.

The use of the category of “Nones” in surveys pertaining to religion should be replaced with “Buts”—that is a category for those who will say something like “I am Catholic, but…” The results of such surveys would be much more enlightening.

The sacred is both fascinating and terrifying: Humans are both drawn to it and impelled to flee from it.