Paul Galloway

Even as the Catholic Church is wrestling publicly and privately with the problem of sexual molestation in the priesthood, the Archdiocese of Chicago Thursday took the extraordinary step of formally...

Confession, we've been told, is good for the soul (and when public, a good way to look good). Surely you recall that in an earlier column (it wouldn't be a...

Pope John Paul II arrives in America on Wednesday carrying his prayers for world peace and pleas for justice to a nation he will be visiting for the fourth and...

Abraham is 75 and enjoying retirement when God tells him to pack up and move because he's to be the progenitor of a great nation. Abraham, wise and virtuous, hits...

A well-known Norman Rockwell painting from the days of the civil rights movement in the South shows a black girl in a white dress. She carries schoolbooks and a ruler...

What year is it? Answer: 1995, 1416 and 5755. The first, favored by Christians and figured from Christ's birth, should be familiar. The second is Islamic, starting at Muhammad's flight...

With the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in full sway in Beijing, it seems fitting to consider females and faith. Our source is a revelatory new volume, "In Our...

Antsy to leave work early, and not eager to struggle through a column on sin or salvation or some such heavy going? Your prayers have been answered. Only briefs today,...

After our recent columns about sin, "a born atheist" writes to wonder "how anyone in this day and age can still absorb religious jargon." Some of our best friends are...

As we complete our three-column screed on original sin, let's begin with a posthumous salute to Mickey Mantle for his exemplary contrition after treatment for alcoholism. In interviews after leaving...