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For seven centuries, eucharistic adoration—praying before an exposed consecrated communion host—was one of the most popular forms of devotion...

Mark Silk notes an interesting moment at the Republican presidential debate Monday night in New Hampshire: Rick Santorum's take on religion in public life sounds an awful lot like the one then-Senator Obama articulated in 2006.

Christians need to support the cause of a Palestinian state that will live peacefully beside Israel—and at the same time reach out to our Jewish neighbors in friendship and love and shared commitment to the common good.

Obedience to God must be rooted in ethics.

Geneva, June 13 (ENInews)--On 14 June, three boxes containing records of brutal torture and repression suffered under two decades of Brazilian...

Nairobi, June 14 (ENInews)--Christian leaders from around the world are calling on the international community to intervene in the violence in...

(RNS) Southern Baptists meeting in Phoenix adopted a plan Tuesday (June 14) to try to boost minorities in their top leadership posts as they...

It's routine, as you get out your credit card in the supermarket checkout line, to be asked to donate a few dollars to medical research. It's an...

As we move into the long season that bids us celebrate the commonplace and to seek the God who dwells within the daily, what sort of blessing might you need?

The great naturalist John Muir once said that anything we can touch is "hitched to everything else in the Universe." He had many opportunities to reflect on this dictum as he hiked through the pris...

Werner Herzog's hypnotic documentary—which takes us into the Chau­vet Cave, where the oldest paintings known to humankind were discovered in 1994—is the first movie to suggest a convincing reason for the invention of 3D cinema.

New York, June 13 (ENInews)--Religious leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations are giving generally high marks to a United Nations AIDS meeting that set new targets to combat the c...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican will use online education and other methods to help the world's Catholic bishops and the heads of religious...

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican will use online education and other methods to help the world's Catholic bishops and the heads of religious...

TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS) Though never short on spectacle, this year's annual gay pride festival was even more colorful with a parade float,...

Religious leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations are giving generally high marks to a United Nations AIDS meeting that...

In my church we've been exploring the idea that God is fully present in each person of the Trinity. Recently our focus has been on the Holy Spirit. On Trinity Sunday, a week after Pentecost, it might be fruitful to consider the implications of this full presence of God in the Spirit.

Yesterday, just in time for Pride,The Boston Globe ran an article titled “...

My old office was above a soup kitchen, and its clients regularly came in to ask for money. Eventually I began interrupting each visitor's story by sliding a 20-dollar bill across my desk—a toll I paid so I could return to my work.