The only practical result of the General Assembly declaring "Palestine" a state will be to move its chair on the side of the Assembly hall a few feet from its present location to be next to the Vatican, the only other "observer state." This is nothing to get excited about.

What Pope Benedict XVI said is that in certain circumstances, using a condom would be less bad than not using one.

This text is a reprint of a volume previously published in 1964, in which MichaelNovak provides an eye witness account of the second session of Vatican II.

In a new book, Alessandro Gisotti offers Italian readers a balanced portrait of Barack Obama's personal faith and an informative review on the influence of religion in U.S. political life.

The freedom enjoyed in Najaf as a result of American actions in 2003 and 2004 will not matter if the United States has no diplomats permanently in Shiite Islam's Vatican City, ready to make Washington's case; America's enemies will define our legacy.

The "progressives" will not forgive John Paul II because what they call sexual liberation the Pope regards as the tyranny of the libido, a form of slavery.

What should public schools teach about life’s origins? This debate erupted anew over the summer after President George W. Bush and Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) endorsed the teaching of intelligent design (ID)—the theory that intelligent causes are responsible for the origin of the universe and of life in all its...

The tradeoff between climate change and a robust airline industry can be solved by aviation innovation.