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The Quinn home in Philadelphia is quiet for the first time in 30 years. No kids playing; no healthy cries of babies. The silence came after... Read More

The McCarrick Mess

Robert Barron, RealClearReligion

When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of... Read More

Pope Francis & the Death Penalty

W. David Montgomery, RealClearReligion

On August 2, Pope Francis revised the official Catechism of the Catholic Church to state that the death penalty was... Read More

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The Hillbilly Thomists

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Should the Church Rethink the Merits of Free Markets?

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One Congregation. Two Countries.

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The Supreme Court's Big Announcements on Religion

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In Signing China Deal, the Vatican Takes an Enormous Risk

Benedict Rogers, CH

Confirmation today that a long-awaited deal between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops has divided Catholics, and... Read More

Evangelicals Argue Against US Reducing Refugees to 30,000

Griffin Jackson, CT

A maximum of 30,000 refugees will be allowed to resettle in the United States next fiscal year. The new ceiling imposed by the Trump... Read More

Vatican I, Pius IX, and the Problem of Ultramontanism

Adam A. J. DeVille, CWR

In reading Church history—and still more so in writing it—one must guard against the temptation of viewing everything through the... Read More

How Faith Moderates Attitudes About Immigration, Race, Identity

Emily Ekins, DF

Increasing political polarization and rising conflict over identity, race relations, immigration, and L.G.B.T. rights have left two... Read More

Padre Pio and Our Bloody Mess National Review

Kathryn Jean Lopez, Nat. Review

The wound in my heart spurts out blood regularly, especially from Thursday night to Saturday. My father, I am moving around in pain from the... Read More

What Draws Women to Religions That Say Men Are In Charge?

Julie Zauzmer, WP

Growing up in rural Mississippi, Gracie Robinson decided early on that she would never get married.In her Baptist church, she heard the... Read More

How Many Mormons Use Marijuana, Anyway?

Benjamin Knoll, Religion News Service

This fall Utah voters will go the polls to vote on Proposition 2 which, if passed, would legalize medical marijuana in the... Read More

Can Moderates Remake the Politics of the Muslim World?

Taylor Luck, CSM

Alaa Faroukh insists he is the future. After nearly a decade in the Muslim Brotherhood, he says that he has finally found harmony between his... Read More

Exploding Spirits and Absolute Theories of Space and Time

Emily Thomas, OUP

Humans exist in space. Our bodies are three dimensional: we have length, breadth, and depth. In the 17th century, philosophers worried about... Read More

Denmark: Opposition Grows to 'Anti-Muslim' Plan

Casey Quackenbush, Time

Resistance is mounting against a proposal by Denmark's ruling right-wing coalition to require a handshake as part of a citizenship... Read More

Atheism Isn't Really a Big Deal

Martin Hughes, Patheos

Atheism isn't as big of a deal to me, anymore.I've made peace, somewhat, with the idea that there is no God. When that happens, atheism isn't... Read More

My Second Bat Mitzvah

Roseanne Benjamin, Tablet Magazine

I had my bat mitzvah on Oct. 9, 1987, the second day of Sukkot—on a Friday morning. Unlike my younger brother, who protested that he... Read More

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Videos

The Hillbilly Thomists

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Should the Church Rethink the Merits of Free Markets?

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One Congregation. Two Countries.

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The Supreme Court's Big Announcements on Religion

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Can Pope Francis' Council of Cardinals Still Deliver on Reform?

By most accounts, Pope Francis was elected with a mandate to reform the Roman Curia, the complex network of dicasteries, commissions and councils charged with the central administrative work of the Catholic Church — a network that, even to insiders and experts, more often resembles a rabbit warren than a well-defined system of governable offices with clear responsibilities.From the beginning Read More

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Church Leader: Marijuana Violates Mormon Word of Wisdom

Mormon doctors who recommend cannabis to their patients, and voters who support medical marijuana legalization efforts, are not at risk of jeopardizing their standing within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the faith's leadership said Wednesday.But recreational use of marijuana — regardless of its legal status — is prohibited by the faith's Word of Wi Read More