Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, before his election to the papacy as Francis, conversed with Rabbi Abraham Skorka on the commonalities of Jewish and Catholic faith.

Atheist Christopher Hitchens wrote a 98-page screed denouncing Mother Teresa - the Albanian nun credited with comforting thousands of dying people in India and encouraging others to aid the poor and dying.

A marvelous memoir by Ivan Thunder recounts how it really was on the sand of Iwo Jima, a tiny island drenched in the blood of Americans and Japanese fighting for supremacy during the Second World War.

Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Edwin Black will lecture on the Redline Agreement - a diplomatic manouevre by the Great Powers to secure oil in the Mideast in the early 20th century. He will speak at Florida Atlantic University on Feb.5.

As part of his 2012 book tour, author Edwin Black will speak in Detroit on June 11-12 on his book, 'The Farhud', which details genocide perpetrated in the Mideast and the Balkans by Nazis and Muslims.

Maureen Dowd continues her knavish attack on the Catholic Church, the institution that once nurtured her.

"The notion that the awe-inspiring levels of functional complexity and specified information found in the simplest of living bacterium is the result of some mysterious unguided undirected process is an extraordinary claim."

Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem: How a Couple of Bungling Sociopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde.

The witty and acerbic Rachel Maddow turns her analysis towards the unending growth of the national security state in the US.

Author Jeffry Odell Korgen examines the schizophrenic advocacy practiced by Catholic Relief Services in his book 'Solidarity Will Transform the World: Stories of Hope from the Catholic Relief Services'.

Mary Eberstadt exposes the social and personal consequences of contraception in 'Adam and Eve after the Pill'.

Edwin Black, the author of 'War Against the Weak', provides new documents and evidence of America's eugenic genocide of so-called 'unfit' people such as blacks, native Americans, Mexicans, and disabled. North Carolina is now considering reparations.

The United States, with help from wealthy individuals and foundations, launched upon a campaign of racial extermination that inspired the Nazis. Black offers shocking new evidence in the new edition of War Against the Weak.

In 1968, there was a lot that changed in the US besides baseball.

Written by a Lutheran pastor, 'How Much is Enough?' is a compelling read that has plenty of food for thought. How can Christians in America and the West resist 'affluenza'?

Grotesque indulgence in adolescent paranoia.

Cardinal Dolan was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly and told him that he does not seek to judge the Obama administration.