At least New York's Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, on wading into the controversy over a proposed Islamic Cultural Center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, got it wrong in the traditional way.

Deploying the M.O. that his predecessor Cardinal O'Connor used in bungling his response to...

On an oven-hot afternoon this past Saturday, more than 250 people descended on an outdoor pavilion displaying 85 sculptures on tabletops in the Hudson Valley village of Tivoli, NY. They came first to view the sculptures--each one ingeniously made of food--and then eat them. After the viewing and before the...

Noting how viewers of the World Cup love the song of the vuvuzela, FIFA has decided that future tournaments will encourage fans of the host nation to indulge their own local customs inside stadiums during matches.

Though the sound of the vuvuzela has been described as atonality...

In 1936, two Catholics were locked in an indirect battle for the soul of the American Church. One was Fr. Charles Coughlin, a priest in the diocese of Detroit whose weekly radio broadcasts drew an average 40 million listeners and whose monthly magazine, Social Justice, had a million...