“The Church stands or falls,” Pope Benedict XVI tells us, “with the liturgy.” Pope Benedict is, of course, quite right. When the sacred liturgy is celebrated with faith, reverence and devotion, the ...

This year’s Top 10 Discoveries reach us from vastly different cultures and across eons. Some raise new questions about what it means to be human and what separates us from our species’ relatives.

A composite skeleton and an array of other bones belonging to multiple members of a previously unknown hominin species(Courtesy John Hawks/Wits University) When ...