From Burt Neuborne's review of Sarah Barringer Gordon's The Spriti of the Law, today at The Forward. When...

At the end of a brief post yesterday about failure of bishops to solve the potential schism that...

Mary Valle: It was a holy card from the bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, to the niece of his...

Glenn Beck has famously postulated -- on a blackboard -- that if all Americans knew the history and content...

History.  Truth.  Faith.  That's the tagline for R.C. Sproul's new Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies.  Sproul,...

Dan Schultz, at Religion Dispatches, on why we've got a "stuck" economy: Now, the religious message is that it...

A Sioux City, Iowa man was denied a gun license by Sheriff Douglas Weber because, said the sheriff,...

An excerpt from the letter that Dr. Kenneth J. Howell sent to his University of Illinois "Introduction to...

Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion at USC and friend of The Revealer, writes at her...

In a recent article for AlterNet Bill Berkowitz describes the fear of European population decline -- so-called...

From AP via HuffPo, USAToday: In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a...

José Saramago, a Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner, died last month.  He was 87.  From Baltasar and Blimunda,...

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

Amidst budget cuts and a long, pronounced decline in attendance, the fight to preserve medeival churches in England is...

"Cryonics is my only hope that I will ever meet my grandmother again."  A new company in Russia, KrioRus,...

The AP reports that British Petroleum has not yet decided how to handle claims from churches and religious...

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...

Foreign Policy, in collaboration with The Fund for Peace, has posted their 6th annual analysis of the most...

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

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Film and Broadcasting (evaluating "according to artistic merit and moral suitability") has...

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

Chris Armstrong at Grateful to the Dead points readers to an article on Gene Roddenberry's humanism. Armstrong...

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