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VATICAN CITY (RNS) A campaign to hold the pope responsible for "crimes against humanity" is not a publicity stunt, sex abuse victims say, even...

OGDEN, Utah (RNS) Mormon leaders have condemned romance novels as "soft porn," and literary critics long have railed against these fictional yarns as "dope for dupes."...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Believers across the nation heard from faith leaders this weekend as millions of Americans wrestled with the spiritual challenges and lessons of 9/11....

Nairobi, Kenya, September 13 (ENInews)--At Holy Family Roman Catholic Basilica in Nairobi, African workers were recently singing lively Christian...

I recently encountered a praying mantis perched on top of a structural pillar at a playground. Naturally, I thought of St. Simeon Stylites.

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The new poverty numbers came out today, and they aren't pretty. The Census Bureau reports that more than 15 percent of Americans are living in poverty--a number that's gone up for three consecutive years and is the highest it's been since 1959.

Katherine Clay Bassard's book on the use of scripture by African-American women writers begins with Balaam's ass and the Song of Songs. One is compelled to keep reading.

Why, the customs officer wanted to know, was I traveling to Canada just to preach? It was a question to ponder.

(RNS) After combating claims of anti-Semitism for years, actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson is slated to bring the story of Judah Maccabee, the...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Rt. Rev. Walter C. Righter, an Episcopal bishop whose victory at a 1996 heresy trial played a key role in the push for...

All preachers need at least one trusted conversation partner whom we can call in the middle of the night, if necessary--someone with whom we...

I’m sure it will end today when the news media go back to reporting on the most urgent question of our time — which GOP candidate...

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It is not easy to do more than pay lip service to the scriptural call "Be still and know that I am God." As anyone who has tried with any regularity soon discovers, becoming still before God is not...

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Operation Helping Hands, the Catholic ministry that employed thousands of volunteers to rebuild nearly 200 homes after...

BERLIN (RNS) A divorced doctor fired from his job at a Catholic hospital because he married another woman should be reinstated, a German court ruled Thursday (Sept. 8)....

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) The pastor of a conservative Christian church that recently moved into the heart of liberal southeast Portland sought to...

We recently asked five Century contributors to reflect on the 9/11 attacks and the decade that followed. Century subscribers can also read the following highlights from our coverage in the weeks following the attacks.

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