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As many of you have noticed, the Century no longer has links to Amazon on its website. To explain this, I took to the magazine.

New today from the Century: Amazon, sales tax and the Century website; a review of the film Carnage; more.

Carnage plays out entirely in a New York City apartment, where two couples are trying to deal with a playground incident involving their 11-year-old sons, one of whom struck the other in the mouth with a stick. In the process, the film—directed and coscripted by Roman Polanski, based on Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage—peels back the skin of each supposedly caring parent, revealing the person beneath the civilized facade.

We can't remember Jesus the way we can remember, say, Bonhoeffer or the lavishly photographed St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

c. 2012 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican's doctrinal chief on Monday (Feb....

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If the disciples hoped before that Jesus didn't know what he was saying, these hopes are now gone.

To be sure, the second-to-last word, which can be very powerful, can be given to something else.

Are Protestants more in line with the Catholic bishops on contraception than Catholics are? Or is it just that there's some correlation between being Protestant and being politically inclined to oppose most any proposal that starts with "Employers should be required..."?

New today from the Century: the memory of God, Martin Copenhaver's seven-word gospel, more.

We disagree with the Catholic bishops' stance on birth control. Nevertheless, we think HHS should offer a broader religious exemption.

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New York, February 6 (ENInews)--Egyptian Christian humanitarian leaders say while politics and religion are garnering the most attention in their country right now, Egypt's serious humanitarian pro...

Paris, February 6 (ENInews)--The front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put into the constitution, prompting religious and legal experts t...

Muslim clerics in Canada issued a fatwa against so-called honor killings a week after three members of an Afghan family in Montreal were convicted of the murders of four relatives....

I have found this year's Republican primaries fascinating, particularly the shifting fortunes of the candidates. While Mitt Romney has been more or less the frontrunner of his ambivalent party, the rest of the field has been one crazy jumble of surges and falls from grace. It's political spectacle at its most interesting, if not necessarily its best.

When I became a stay-at-home father several years ago, I slowly realized that all the theology I had studied in seminary, if I were honest, didn’t connect with my new reality of diapers, spit-up and frozen breast milk.

New today from the Century: the editors on the contraception mandate, a stay-at-home dad on male privilege, more.

The primary reason to im­merse yourself in the jagged world of We Need to Talk About Kevin is the towering lead performance by Tilda Swin­ton, an actress of continuing spontaneity who traveled a circuitous route through experimental and art cinema before embarking on a second career in the mainstream.

In many cases, shouting "Elephant in the room!" is an attempt to avoid other, lesser, lurking creatures.