By DAVID YOUNTWednesday, August 20, 2008If the ancient Romans had paid attention to the subversive letters St. Paul was writing from prison, they would have withdrawn his mailing privileges. Although...

By TERRY MATTINGLYWednesday, August 20, 2008For many years, Marc Newman used a simple test when asking college students if they thought some actions were always right and others were always...

By TERRY MATTINGLYWednesday, August 20, 2008The career of Bishop Catherine Roskam of the Diocese of New York has been built on her skills as a cross-cultural ambassador for the modern...

By DAVID YOUNTWednesday, August 20, 2008All the world loves a lover, right? Perhaps in purely human terms that cliche is true, but plenty of people who profess to love God...

By TERRY MATTINGLYWednesday, August 20, 2008For a dozen years, they hunted Europe's most notorious war criminal. Investigators knew exactly where they thought they would find former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan...

By TERRY MATTINGLYWednesday, August 20, 2008The YouTube era has produced a few Catholic stars -- priests whose performances have inspired scores of Web surfers to pass along e-mails full of...

By DAVID YOUNTWednesday, August 20, 2008When Kathleen Kincaid, 77, died from complications of bone cancer earlier this month, her dream died with her. Her greatest hope was to create communities...

By TERRY MATTINGLYWednesday, August 20, 2008Few things in life cause more shame than encounters with con artists, those old-fashioned predators who know how to massage egos while selling snake oil...

By DAVID YOUNTWednesday, August 20, 2008Even before Christianity was institutionalized, there were churches -- local Christian communities within the far-flung Roman Empire connected only by the faith they shared. We...

By DAVID YOUNTWednesday, August 20, 2008 As a token of his devotion to the species, a dog lover has constructed a chapel for canines on his 175-acre property near St....