About the Center The Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, established in fall 2004, seeks to explore questions arising at the intersection of religious faith and contemporary culture.  At a time when the influence of religion in U.S. public life is both recognized and contested, the Center will foster conversations about the issues today’s culture raises for religious belief and institutions, and the challenges posed by religion to the culture. Strategically located at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, the Center will draw on New York City’s leading role in intellectual and literary life, media, the visual and performing arts, and diplomatic and humanitarian activities, as well as on the city’s unusual cultural and religious diversity.

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The center is co-directed by Peter Steinfels, university professor, New York Times religion columnist, and author most recently of A People Adrift: TheCrisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America, and by Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, journalist-in-residence at Fordham University, former editor-in-chief of Commonweal magazine, and editor of American Catholics in the Public Square .