National Catholic Reporter journalist John Allen talks with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross about his new book, Opus Dei: An...

Jason Carter: Amid the tensions of Bush’s visit to the world’s fastest growing economy, the president emphasized China’s repression...

Zain Shauk: In a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, radio host Dennis Prager posed five questions that he said...

The ACLU didn’t steal Christmas, but don’t think that’s about to stop Jerry Falwell in his remarkably unoriginal new...

The New York Times’ Carolyn Marshall does an admirable job of refereeing in her latest story, about a pending...

According to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, “American Attitudes Toward Religion in the Public Square,” nearly two-thirds...

“Over the past decade, I have engaged in an intellectual and spiritual odyssey that began when I was in...

“‘What’s happening now in the Islamic community is very similar to what was happening in the 1920s and ’30s…with...

The Wildhunt Blog reads between the lines of this Herald Tribune story describing a forum on religion in public...

A petition organized by Jay Sekulow, of the conservative action group American Center for Law and Justice, which is...

In the breath before the rush to denounce former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, for his courtroom statements that a)...

News of the Silly: England’s General Register Office has revised rules that banned all religious references from civil marriage...

A USA Today editorial makes the case that religion is the prime mover at the Food and Drug Administration,...

Stephanie Simon of The Los Angeles Times profiles the non-prophet founder of a new, doubt-filled religion — Universism —...

A week after the State Department’s annual listing of countries “blacklisted” for their lack of religious freedom, comes horrible...

“Finally, a day in which we can come together and celebrate God’s eternal moral law.” Mark your calendars for...

The true confessions of a Catholic priest’s Madonna/Whore “backstreet girl“; the memory of religious exclusion from a gay married...

Nearly ten months after the Kansas State Board of Education proposed altering the definition of “science” for statewide standards,...

American Jesus author Stephen Prothero considers the growing SBNR (“spiritual but not religious“) movement, as the crowd of independent...

Taking stock of the secular apocalyptic mindset. By J.J. Helland   As I was watching the recent made-for-TV-movie, Category...

“Jesus did not say, ‘If I be lifted up I will draw some.’ Jesus said, ‘If I be lifted...

In the wake of the U.S. State Department’s report on worldwide religious freedom, which once again condemned Saudi Arabia...

Michael Newdow files again, this time taking aim at the “In God We Trust” motto on U.S. currency. Newdow...

All this past year, Australian culture wars have been following the U.S. playbook faithfully, erupting over gay marriage, public...