Idealism may exist especially in young adults because they have not experienced decade upon decade of the intractability of a deeply flawed ...

On January 28, 2026, Sarah Mullally became the first woman to occupy the seat of the archbishop of Canterbury, which is the spiritual leader...

As in the case of the Roman Empire, which internal corruption likely weakened and even destroyed centuries after that empire had been a rep...

The film, Far from Heaven (2002), centers around a woman whose husband turns out to be gay. That this is set in 1957-1958 in socialite Conn...

The 14 th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “bans anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but who subsequently ‘engaged in insu...

Even though they are formally separated in the U.S. under the constitutional rubric that the federal government cannot lawfully establish a...

In April 2012, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella ...

As tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East were seeking refuge in the E.U., Pope Francis “called on every parish, religious comm...

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As October 2011 was coming to an end, George Papandreou, prime minister of Greece, “stunned Europe by announcing a referendum” on the lates...