Atheists often claim to be "just as moral" as religious believers.

A Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on the matter of the protection of conscience.

The long, violent terror war in the Islamic world -- which killed hundreds of thousands in Algeria alone in the 1990s -- took on global dimensions on Sept. 11, 2001.

Catholic public leaders inconvenienced by the abortion debate tend to take a hard line in talking about the "separation of Church and state." But their idea of separation often seems to work one way.

Not too long after a glorious liturgical event in St. Peter's Square, I went out to lunch in the Piazza Navona with several American couples.

Winston Churchill, master of eloquent bellicosity, is also remembered for saying that "'Jaw, jaw' is better than 'war, war.'"

While I'm not very informed about the Intelligent Design debate, the idea sounds inoffensive enough: Scientists cannot prove there is a Designer, and neither can they prove there's no Designer, so why not leave the question open?

One of my grade ten students recently asked me: "Why doesn't Jesus come down once in a while and just, you know, chill with us?" The class found this very amusing.

Faced with the spectacle of the cruelties perpetrated in the name of faith, Voltaire famously cried Ecrasez linfâme!.

In my debate with Christopher Hitchens in New York last October he raised a point that I did not know how to answer. So I employed an old debating strategy: I ignored it and answered other issues. But Hitchens' argument bothered me.