RealClearReligion

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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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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The Case Against Pope Francis

Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review

Just over five years ago, the Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio came out onto the loggia of St. Peter's as Pope Francis. It is useful... Read More

The Elephant in the Synod

Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald

Hilaire Belloc once remarked that the Catholic Church must have a divine origin, because “no merely human institution conducted with... Read More

The Rise of the Gnostic Liberal State After Christianity

Andrew Latham, Touchstone

Post-liberalism. Beyond liberalism. After liberalism. In recent years, books and articles with titles containing these and similar phrases... Read More

Giving Sabbath a Rest

Delina McPhaull, Christianity Today

I grew up in a Sabbatarian religion where we practiced Sabbath observance as a matter of law. My religious community was conscious of the... Read More

Younger Latter-day Saints, Fundamentalists Building Bridges

Nate Carlisle, SLTrib

Moroni Jessop and his daughters recently attended Young Women programs for teenage girls at the local branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of... Read More

Politics in the Hebrew Bible

David Polanksy, Law & Liberty

There's been an efflorescence recently of scholarship on “political Hebraism,” an evocative heading that can be understood in one... Read More

The Leaders Who Unleashed China's Mass Detention of Muslims

Chris Buckley, NYT

Rukiya Maimaiti, a local propaganda official in China's far west, warned her colleagues to steel themselves for a wrenching... Read More

Compassion in the Church (and Mosque and Temple)

Philip Jenkins, Christian Century

ll the major religions teach the virtues of charity and compassion, of almsgiving and generosity to the poor. Historically, however,... Read More

Bridging Belfast's Sectarian Divide

Philip Metres, Commonweal Magazine

Anyone looking closely at the Reverend Bill Shaw, OBE, standing outside the building complex on Duncairn Avenue in Belfast, might well... Read More

Members Only Judaism

Ilana Marcus, Tablet

While Conservative rabbis have reaffirmed their policy against officiating at interfaith weddings, Conservative synagogues move to welcome... Read More

Do Atheists Think Too Much Like Believers?

George Scialabba, New Republic

Our hominid ancestors first appeared around six million years ago. They started to use symbols around 150,000 years ago, and the first of the... 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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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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How Many Mormons Use Marijuana, Anyway?

This fall Utah voters will go the polls to vote on Proposition 2 which, if passed, would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Public opinion polls show the measure to be popular with Utah voters, despite opposition from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which wields considerable influence in Utah's social and political culture.While formally opposi Read More