The Shakers, who arrived in America in 1774, are a religious community facing extinction. Their decline means nothing less than the end of an idea of heaven.

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

Marco Rubio’s economics nominally invoke Catholic social teaching, but conveniently ignore the parts that are inconsistent with his conservative record and rhetoric.