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Depending on your tolerance or affection for epic morality plays, Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret may either feel too long and subplot-laden, with one too many plot twists, or a bit thin and sketchy (despite a running time of two and a half hours).

Whatever its explicit message, Occupy Wall Street has made a powerful statement with its very mode of existence.

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (RNS) It began last week with a single online comment, one critical of a high school display marking Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month....

c. 2011 USA Today (RNS) More than one-third of Americans now oppose the death penalty -- the highest level in nearly 40 years -- according to a new Gallup Poll. ...

(RNS) Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Mo., has been charged with failing to report the suspected abuse of a child, making him the first...

(RNS) Tithing to U.S. Protestant churches as a percentage of income is at its lowest level in at least 41 years, according to a new report, and...

Harare, Zimbabwe, October 14 (ENInews)--Zimbabwe's high court has ordered Anglican Church staffers back at a mission hospital from where they were evicted by an excommunicated bishop last month and...

Andrew Greeley is one of the best-known priests in Amer­ica: a respected and influential sociologist, a best-­selling novelist and an...

Eleven-year-old Sarai Camacho of Donna, Texas, tears up when she tells why her mother let the babysitter go for her and her younger...

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Years ago a friend who had served very effectively in a United Methodist Church moved to another city to join...

Last week, Faith in Public Life asked Rick Santorum if he agrees with the Catholic teaching that public policy should include a "preferential option for the poor." He appeared to be unfamiliar with the concept.

The McGarrigle sisters (Kate died of sarcoma last year) were more successful in their native Canada than in the States, but they were deeply admired by those who covered their songs: Emmylou Harris...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Prompted by civil liberties groups, a taxpayer-supported homeless shelter in the nation's capital will no longer require its clients to attend religious services....

Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian activist who helped bring her country out of a brutal civil war and one of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners, says the best way to achieve global peace is to start in loc...

As waves of demonstrators descended on New York City to unite with others to protest corporate greed, they were met by typical sounds of raucous youth-led protests: drum beats, police sirens and sh...

Mormon leaders are surveying members about their readership of key websites and Mormon writers, a move that reflects the faith's growing interest in managing its public image as two Mormon candidat...

As Egypt approaches the an­niversary of the protest movement that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak, the country still finds itself torn by sectarian violence....

One of my more conservative friends posted this picture on his Facebook page recently, shared under the headline, “It’s funny, because it’s true.” I get it. Ironic, right? Maybe so. Yes, the captions make a point, but it’s not one I find compelling.