I sat upon the fire-escape steps of our apartment in Columbus, Ohio and looked up into a grey, cloudless sky.

The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

The great British physicist Stephen Hawking has emerged in recent years as a poster boy for atheism, and his heroic struggles against the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease have made him something of a secular saint.

The idea of a good and all powerful God makes no sense to Stephen Fry.

In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as End of Faith author Sam Harris puts it, "the most potent source of human conflict, past and present."

Reading the great Catholic poet's Divine Comedy is more than a literary experience, it's a guide to the spiritual life.

"This book is one of the most lyrical and moving reflections on God I have encountered. It is also remarkably generous, both to believers and nonbelievers. Most helpfully it is about how to pray, and how to suffer through the dark night in which answers, and communication, seem absent. A remarkable book by a remarkable man." - Peggy Noonan

Leading atheists are arguing that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime were theist and specifically Christian.

What is meant by 'religion', and what kind of thing are 'we'?

The first chapter of Genesis remains a great stumbling block for the modern mind.