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(RNS) In recent weeks, an arcane and scary-sounding religious term has crept into the lexicon of the 2012 campaign, tripping from the tongue of...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican took a swipe at new sex education classes in New York City schools on Wednesday (Aug. 31), saying teaching middle...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is donating $25,000 to help repair the Washington National Cathedral, which...

(RNS) Mitch Mayne is not the first openly gay person to hold a key leadership post within the all-volunteer clergy of the Church of Jesus...

(RNS) The shock of the 9/11 attacks was so great, and the personal losses so deep, that many people understandably sought simple answers for such overwhelming malevolence....

If we got all these spiritual-not-religious people together, they might find out that most of America agrees with them. But getting them together would be way too much like church.

I had an English professor who used to get deeply annoyed whenever students would cite some literary passage but not bother to quote it exactly. I recall him telling us, "Look, if you're going to quote somebody, get it right."

New today from the Century.

Just this last week I've encountered examples of what I can only describe as spiritual abuse. It saddens one, because what is meant to be...

Dove Award winner Francesca Battis­telli has proved to be a refreshing breeze in the musty swamp of the Christian music industry, delivering material that sparkles with energy and vibrancy.

When documentaries ex­plore Christianity, they have little difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice. A global survey also reveals a surprising diversity when it comes to the content of the Bible.

Sydney, August 31 (ENInews)--Christian leaders in Australia have welcomed a ruling from Australia's highest court that Australia cannot send asylum...

Criticism of Rick Perry's religious beliefs has been dismissed as just the same old secularist paranoia. But this misses the significance of the New Apostolic Reformation.

New today from the Century.

The resources for faith formation have grown in recent decades, yet the task remains elusive. After all, everything the church does is formative—and one can never predict how formation will happen.

This year the lectionary texts will be heard on the tenth anniversary of 9/11....

(RNS) Pop quiz: Who said "We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don't know what to do, we never give up"?...

Canterbury, England, August 30 (ENInews)--Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is planning to visit Zimbabwe in October as part of a wider...

New York, August 30 (ENInews)--Fiji's military government has expanded a crackdown on the Methodist Church, banning all church meetings except for...

Almost half the nation's estimated 2.8 million Muslims fault their leaders for not speaking out against Islamic extremists, but a vast...