It's the Fourth of July and while we celebrate the founding of our great nation, I'm amused by the...

The New York Times reports that Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Shiite Islam holy figure with...

In the wake of the November excommunication and demotion of Arizona hospital administrator Sister Margaret McBride, for approving...

Last week it was reported that Christopher Hitchens, atheist and provocateur (and Iraq war supporter), was diagnosed with throat...

He's run through anti-semitism (The Passion of the Christ), classism (restraining order against a homeless man?!) and now --...

Mary Valle: We here at The Revealer were wondering just who was the "American who taught that Catholics could dissent...

Mary Valle: A huge New York Times piece on the Ratzinger-led Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith's role in...

Despite calls from sponsors to disinvite Jim Wallis as keynote speaker at next week's Lifest, an Evangelical...

Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan?  It's hard to...

The Forsyth Area Critical Thinkers (FACT) and the Forsyth County Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church...

Michael Cook at BioEdge writes that what happens in bioethics in the U.S., Britain, and Australia is worth watching...

Three months after elections in Iraq, a new Prime Minister has not yet been selected to form a new...

Last week, lightning struck the infamous "Touchdown Jesus" outside an Ohio church.  (They had no lightning protection, I...

From the Augusta Chronicle comes one of the best opening lines of the year:  "Spencer Evans was consumed in...

Yesterday, reports CNN, was designated a day of prayer by Louisiana's desperate state senate.  The decision was made...

Mary Valle: I thought that the easiest thing in the world might be eating pudding or sleeping or watching...

Newsweek's religion editor, Lisa Miller, contributes to the recent conversation about Sarah Palin's "feminism," but instead of parsing...

Thaddeus Pope, a professor at Widener School of Law and (the well-named) keeper of the site Medical Futility Blog...

An event was held in downtown Manhattan yesterday to protest the proposed building of a mosque on the World...

In the June 18th issue of the Catholic publication Commonweal, the magazine's editors address a recent "remarkably defensive" letter...

Stephanie Butnick: In Tablet, Ryann Liebenthal accompanies a group of French Jews as they move to Israel. After...

Malcolm Nance tells Rachel Maddow that the best way to defeat Al-Qaeda is to spread understanding of their...

Stephanie Butnick: Pop culture phenomenon Lady Gaga, clad in suspenders and glasses, tells Larry King she's "very religious"...

It's been six weeks since the Deep Water Horizon sank to the bottom of the Gulf waters. The...