When Karl Marxs housekeeper bore him a son three months after his wife gave birth to their fourth child, his first thought was his reputation. In what biographer Francis Wheen refers to as one of the first and most successful cover-ups for the greater good of the Communist cause, Marx managed to get his close friend, Friedrich Engels, to take the blame, and the woman to give up her 5-week-old infant for adoption.

Mary Jo Anderson urges us not to be fooled by UN manipulation of religious traditions for its own destructive ends.

By the 1970s, many within Quebec's Catholic Church were forced to recognize that what they had really signed on to was, so to speak, their own death warrant.

The great problem today is not the threat that religion poses to public life, but the threat that the state, presuming to embody public life, poses to religion.

I reply that it must be said that, in order that a war may be just, three things are necessary.

I just returned from a conference in South Korea on "The Effects of Globalization on Politics, Society and the Family."

The American Constitution embodies, and is only comprehensible, in light of Christian and (pre-modern) natural law assumptions.

The habit of ignoring the factor of religion in human life and international affairs is all too common in the West.

The American Declaration of Independence, which is so admirable and dignified an expression of the American mind, is at the same time an accurate expression of the Catholic mind, medieval and modern.

At the close of this century every religious tradition finds common ground in a common task, that of exposing the deceptions of the modern age.