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

Department of Justice Steps Up to Protect Religious Liberty

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, RealClearReligion

Attorney General Jeff Session’s Department of Justice has assumed an important leadership role in protecting and promoting religious... 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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PA Sex Abuse Report Lists More Than 300 Catholic Priests

Michelle Boorstein, WP

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday released a sweeping grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, listing more than 300... Read More

The Church of Trump

Alex Wagner, The Atlantic

Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, in late January 2016, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced to an audience in... Read More

The Catholic Church's 'New Ultramontanists'

Brian Flanagan, Nat. Catholic Reporter

"When the Pope thinks, it is God who is thinking in him."—Louis Veuillot"I should like a new Papal Bull every morning with my Times at... Read More

The Healing of Willow Creek

Mark Galli, Christianity Today

In light of the resignation of its pastoral staff and elder board, it's time to rally around Willow Creek Community Church with support and... Read More

Vatican Advisor: Pope 'Breaks Catholic Traditions Whenever He Wants'

Fr Thomas Rosica said the Church is now 'ruled by an individual rather than by... its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture'Under Pope... Read More

1M Muslims Have Been Detained by China. Where's the Outrage?

Mehdi Hasan, TI

It was on September 16, 2001, five days after the 9/11 attacks, that President George W. Bush declared his now-infamous “war on... Read More

When Will Mormons Dump Trump?

Robert Rees & Clifton Jolley, SLT

Donald Trump famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.”He may... Read More

Boris and the Burqa

Carl R. Trueman, First Things

Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to reach for their blood pressure... Read More

Evangelical Culture Taught Me to Rationalize Sexual Assault

Becca Andrews, MJ

It didn't hit me right away what had happened. It was an upsetting moment, but it was, in many ways, an upsetting relationship. After... Read More

Buddhism, the Good and the Bad

John Horgan, Scientific American

My previous post describes a week-long silent Buddhist retreat I took last month, which affected me more than I expected. In this post,... Read More

St. Joseph the Teacher

Nicholas Frankovich, Commonweal Magazine

At the direction of the pope, the name of St. Joseph was added to the canon of the Mass in the Roman rite. The year was 1962. In discussions... Read More

The Bible's Idea of History Versus the Modern Idea

Jon D. Levenson, Mosaic

Eric Mechoulan's essay, “What Is the Meaning of Jewish History?,” is a wide-ranging, learned, and challenging exploration of the... Read More

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Videos

The Hillbilly Thomists

Buzzfeed

Should the Church Rethink the Merits of Free Markets?

Buzzfeed

One Congregation. Two Countries.

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The Supreme Court's Big Announcements on Religion

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A Protestant Understanding of England's Martyrs

Hidden in the northern suburbs of Oxford are the last traces of a path first trodden by multitudes of country folk hurrying to see the burning of the Protestant martyrs Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley on October 16, 1555, and trudging home afterward.For some years I lived very close to this track, and after dark I would imagine all those figures bustling past in their gray-and-brown homespun, the Read More

Houses of Worship

Court Stops Tax on Christians Feeding Poor Children

Now and then, children win, and when theirs is a triumph over the kind of entrenched, biased bureaucracy that so often frustrates their elders, the joys of victory are rich indeed.For 17 years now, the historic Moody Church in Chicago's Lincoln Park has offered an afterschool program, By the Hand Club for Kids, which reaches underprivileged children in the Cabrini-Green, Altgeld-Murray, Engl Read More