Father Carter, a professor and social worker, helped establish the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the New York chapter of DignityUSA.

The Princeton scholar Cornel West, at Newark’s airport, says he has never spent a weekend in Princeton.Cornel West, Princeton professor and civil rights activist, hasn’t had breakfast on Sunday since 1984. But that hasn’t slowed down his traveling for lectures.

Churches remain a special category of real estate in New York, set-aside zones dedicated to the proposition that all of us need quiet places to be alone in public.

In Norwalk, Conn., tangled emotions are still dividing many Catholics almost eight years after the sex abuse scandal rocked the church.

A building damaged on 9/11 and then abandoned has become a prayer space, envisioned as a future Islamic cultural, educational and recreational center.

A building damaged on 9/11 and then abandoned has become a prayer space, envisioned as a future Islamic cultural, educational and recreational center.

For nearly a month, Biswajit Paul’s remains sat in the medical examiner’s office, pinned under the weight of bureaucratic law.

For nearly a month, Biswajit Paul’s remains sat in the medical examiner’s office, pinned under the weight of bureaucratic law.

Recently released documents offer glimpses from a decade ago of a rising star in the Roman Catholic Church in America as he navigated a scandal that still threatens the church’s reputation and finances.

The Supreme Court refused to delay the release of documents from lawsuits filed against priests accused of sexually abusing children.