Steve Kloehn

If you knew you could save the lives of several hostages by shooting their kidnapper to death, would you be morally justified in pulling the trigger? What if the only...

Someday, in some distant future, an archeologist will sift through the shards of 21st Century American civilization, looking for artifacts of that culture's vibrant and peculiar religious life. And when...

As fictional Southern belle and underrated theologian Scarlett O'Hara once said, "I'll think about that tomorrow." And tomorrow--or, in the case of the Episcopal Church, the summer of 2003--ought to...

There won't be any prisoners at Sunday's Roman Catholic Jubilee Mass for Prisoners, but the guest list is still pretty interesting. Cardinal Francis George and the auxiliary bishops of Chicago...

If it's June, it must be the Presbyterians' turn to fight about homosexuality. The Methodists did it in May; next month it will be the Episcopalians. But Friday, in Long...

Carl Demma believed a statue could bring people into closer communion with God--believed it enough to sell his liquor store, use the money to commission a 33-foot stainless-steel rendering of...

Forget all the cliches about hard-bitten, unflappable newspaper reporters. We are, by nature and training, a hyperventilating species with short memory. We are just dying to tell you the latest...

It is hard to say which better illustrates the machinations of the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting: the fact that the nation's largest Protestant denomination decided this week to laud...

Judging by the petitions and fervent testimony of its citizens, the southwest suburb of Palos Heights has developed a new passion for recreation. The city is doing everything it can,...

For many years, the Vatican kept a lid on the three so-called secrets of Fatima, the messages three Portuguese children said they had received from an apparition of the Virgin...