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KATHERINE DUGAN | Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of his five years as pope thus far...

KAREN ROSS | In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception...

PAUL W. GLEASON | By now, the demographic decline of the Protestant mainline churches is unmistakable...

WILLIAM E.B. SHERMAN | During the thirteenth century in the western region of India now known as Maharashtra...

WILL THEISS | In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was wasting away at...

RUTH JACKSON | In an episode from the third season of Mad Men, which is set in the early 1960s and follows a fictional advertising firm...

ROSS MCCOLLOUGH | A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx...

ERIC HUNTINGTON | Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers...

DANA FISHKIN | The study of medieval Jewish history often yields examples of beliefs, practices, conventions or sensibilities shared...

PAUL MENDES-FLOHR | It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain...

BENJAMIN D. SOMMER | My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core...

JOHN C. CAVADINI | In his thoughtful, creative, and learned book, Revelation and Authority, Benjamin Sommers reflects on Catholic ideas...