"God is dead, proclaimed Nietzsche, shockingly, in 1882.

The Catholic Church remains almost a lone voice in our age defending the view that contraceptive sexual activity in marriage is wrong.

Don't bring a gun to a rubber-chicken fight.

Recently my email yielded a straightforward De profundis from a young reader pleading for reassurances; he needed to know that embracing Catholicism did not require the shutting down of his intellect or the suspension of reason.

In his book A Secular Age, Charles Taylor distinguishes between the enchanted and disenchanted worlds.

The claim that seems to be at the heart of today's popular atheism is that one does not need the God Hypothesis in order to explain the universe; the idea of God was nothing more than a way to fill in the gaps in our scientific knowledge of the universe.

An angry man confronted Cardinal Dolan recently over the sexual abuse of minors by priests.

Do we have free will? Are we truly responsible for our actions? Or, on the other hand, are we merely passive pawns who are completely at the mercy of impersonal or alien forces?

Though stories of seemingly altruistic animals tug at the heartstrings, humans are nature's sole moralists.

I'm continually amazed how often the problem of Genesis comes up in my work of evangelization and apologetics.