Steve Kloehn

For lack of a better name, reporters covering the pope's visit to Cuba last week called the mysterious, loitering operatives of the Castro regime "handlers." Some of the handlers wore...

Catholicism has no universal pilgrimage, like Islam's journey to Mecca. It is not inextricably linked to a piece of land, as Judaism is to Israel. But walk past the marble...

Chicago Archbishop Francis George's startlingly swift arc through the Roman Catholic hierarchy landed him in the church's inner circle Sunday, when Pope John Paul II announced he will elevate George...

If you haven't heard it by now, next Thursday is the 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Don't bother writing that down;...

In a long and highly public career, Martin Marty has been many things: church historian, man-about-town, author of more than 40 books, cultural commentator, media favorite, after-dinner speaker, pastoral theologian...

In the ethereal realm of e-mail, where sources for all information must be taken on faith, a friend forwarded me the following message, which he claims he received from a...

Again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of...

Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial head of the Nation of Islam, "laid a trap" for Mayor Richard Daley by calling for dialogue with Jews, a Jewish leader charged Friday. "The...

In the parlors of rural Iowa, during the darkest days of the farm crisis, David Ostendorf got a look at his evil twin. What he saw chilled him. Ostendorf, ordained...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, whose visit to Chicago earlier this month put a spotlight on the normally low-profile Greek Orthodox Church, has returned to the Phanar, his outpost in...