During his recent African trip, Pope Benedict XVI said that the distribution of condoms would not resolve the AIDS problem.

In their 1985 bestseller, Habits of the Heart, sociologist Robert Bellah and his coauthors introduced America to a peculiar new religion: "Sheilaism."

By the dawn's early light on Nov. 5, two distinct Americas hove into view.

This history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true.

The new atheism is going mainstream. Now atheist groups are taking out signs on public buses that say "Why believe in God? Just be good for goodness sake."

Aleister Crowley was an English witch.

The historicity of Christ, including his death by crucifixion, is a fact as well attested as any in the ancient world.

In his book, Without Roots, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only "the despicable and the destructive."

Last month, the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Father Adolfo Nicolas, a Spaniard, as General of the order.

When the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovery of America was observed in 1892, the atmosphere was one of celebration.