Over the last 5,000 years, what has made the concept of debt so strangely powerful?
Poland’s Catholic Neo-Communists
PiS aims to create a repressive, homogeneous society not much different from the late unlamented Polish People’s Republic — albeit in the name of Jesus Christ, not Karl Marx.
Next: An African Pope?
Where is the Catholic Church growing? When will the Vatican hierarchy lose its European/Western bent?
China and the Catholic Church
What similar challenges do the new leaders in the Vatican and China both face?
Pope Francis: A Martin Luther in the Making?
Is Jorge Bergoglio up to the task of reforming the Catholic Church without breaking it apart? Governance reforms are centuries overdue.
Goldman Sachs and the Vatican: Two Cultures of Infallibility
What does the world's most successful financial firm need to learn from the travails of the Catholic Church?
An American in Poland, Anno 1983: Return to the West (Part V)
After viewing a country under oppressive Soviet rule, what impressions would an American student take back home?
An American in Poland, Anno 1983: The Role of Churches (Part III)
How can shared hardships bring people of different faiths together?
Anglicans: A Hostile Takeover From the Continent?
Why do the Vatican's policymakers believe the Church of England is in Chapter 11?