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(The Christian Science Monitor) The Vatican announced Tuesday the most radical reforms to Roman Catholic marriage annulment ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) Yasunori Ueda may visit the Ise Grand Shrine every summer to pray to for his family and good health, b...

This week’s Gospel may be the second Passion prediction, but being told that Jesus will be killed is no easier on the second hearing. Maybe the disciples don’t ask questions because they’re afraid it could be true.

When I was baptized at 12, I refused what Baptists call “the right hand of fellowship.” I wanted the water but not the fellowship.

Insisting that a government office answer to the law rather than to a given official’s religious beliefs isn’t de-prioritizing religious freedom in favor of something else. It is religious freedom. 

The Bible, or so some folks who think they've discovered something profound will tell you, disagrees with itself. "Your holy book doesn't add up," they say....

My daughter and I drove up the driveway of the Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center to pick up my husband, Brian, from work....

Imprisonment in this country is long on punishment and shamefully short on rehabilitation.

In the Talmud, there is a story of a group of rabbis arguing over the status of a particular clay oven. Is it clean or unclean? Rabbi Eliezer stands alone against the interpretation given by his fellow sages, and he begins to call upon nature to confirm him.

A friend of mine recently posed this question on Facebook: Junior high girls braiding each other’s hair in church: appropriate or not? Considering this friend has never been a junior-high girl nor parented a junior-high girl, the question seemed sincere and did not bother me. What did bother me, however, was the frequency with which one particular word kept popping up in the comments: distracting. 

Todd Billings weaves his struggle with a rare form of blood cancer together with probing biblical and theological reflection.

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) “The California drought is so bad, people in Napa are asking the pope to change the wine into water.”...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Sam Clark wasn’t reared as a Catholic. He never converted, either....

(The Christian Science Monitor) Charleston mayor Joseph P....

(The Christian Science Monitor) Clinging to a barren hillside, the Bala­dim outpost was little more than a solitary trailer, a farming...

One day, as I considered my routine of pills and naps and exercises, I saw that it is not unlike praying the hours.

For months, at the urging of my spiritual director, I have been praying to find my heart’s desire, to find that thing (not a person—I have those) that inspires me, energizes me; my flow. But you pray for something long enough, and the prayer goes unanswered, and eventually you stop praying for the thing.

I was trying to write a provocative article for a readership that includes many people who a) oppose the death penalty for faith-based reasons, and b) take for granted that replacing it with LWOP is a fairly straightforward good. But I should have done more to anticipate how others might see a one-sided article where I saw a narrowly focused one.

Robert Saler’s two main concerns are theological authorship and how we conceive of the church. The two have an unsettled relationship.

(The Christian Science Monitor) Researchers from the University of Oxford have said that recently discovered fragments ...