religion

The Creator's commandment to love others as we love ourselves is, unfortunately not self-fulfilling. More often than not it is honored in the breach.

President Dwight Eisenhower's Civil-Rights Commission faced high hurdles as it searched for common ground in the tense years after the U.S. Supreme Court began attacking the walls of segregation inside America's schools.

With every good intention, some American parents deliberately deprive their children of exposure to religion for fear of indoctrinating them. They reason that when the kids are old enough, they can choose for themselves whether or not to embrace a religious faith.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas knows all about strange plot twists, and he is convinced that God often sends big messages in the final acts of people's lives.

The women's-clinic nurse confirmed that Lacy Dodd was pregnant, and then told her not to worry because she had "other options."

I don't normally use this column for birth announcements, but indulge me just this once. The long-awaited second child of Virginia, our eldest daughter, has just made her entrance into this tired old world, making it seem fresh and new again. The baby girl weighed in at 7 pounds 7 ounces. Her parents named her to honor my wife, but spelled "Rebecca" as "Rebekah."

Don Whitney knows what happens when people hear that a Southern Baptist seminary is offering a doctor of philosophy degree in spirituality.

The popular disgust over sanctioning torture to extract information from suspected terrorists was predictable. Most of us were aware that some foreign governments sanction such inhumane treatment, but assumed that Americans were "above" such brutal behavior. We expect higher standards of conduct from our elected officials. Now we are enraged and ashamed.

President Ronald Reagan's secretary of education, alarmed at the erosion of religious faith in America, once remarked that we were becoming "the kind of country we used to send missionaries to."
William Bennett's prediction is being realized.
Newsweek celebrated Easter this year with a cover story lamenting "The Rise and Fall of Christian America."

It may take time, but it's hard for a Catholic educator to publicly praise the work of nuns who have bravely leaped "beyond Jesus" without drawing some flak -- especially in the Internet age.