O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet … Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet… Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

Of the writing (and publishing) of histories of the Protestant Reformation there is no end: almost a dozen Reformation histories have been published in English within the past decade or so, suggesting ...

Two dates in October tell the story of a divided Christendom. October 11, 1962, marks the beginning of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. October 31, 1517, signals the coming of ...

Photo taken by author, at the Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University Chicago. Iesus Christus, α et ω, principium et finis, filius Dei et hominis, Salvator ...

The Counter-Reformation of the mid-16th century was a Roman Catholic call for reform in the wake of immoral papal policies. The Church struck back with banned books and inquisitions against heresy – ...

Father Michael Martin, the Catholic chaplain at Duke University leads a group of Catholic students in prayer before Carlo Dolci’s artwork at the Nasher Museum. (Credit: Yonat Shimron/RNS.) Listen ...

After two centuries of hibernation, traditionalist Muslim clerics were abruptly woken by Osama bin Laden. Just as Luther's reformation overlapped with Calvin's agitations against the Church, Abdul ...