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VATICAN CITY (RNS) No major Western European leader in recent years has been a more stalwart ally of the Roman Catholic Church than Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. ...

In the opening scene of this new novel, the protagonist, Golden Richards, comes home from work to one of the three houses where his four...

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In a post introducing Arts & Faith's list of the top 25 horror films of all time, Jeffrey Overstreet rightly observes that not all horror is created equal.

No one has done more than N.T. Wright to make the broad sweep of the scriptural narrative speak vividly to laypeople--while challenging the academy by pressing profound motifs as far as they can go.

As we talked about the story, and as the excitement of the congregation grew more and more palpable, I imagined children playing in heaps of seeds, tossing them into the air.

Rome, February 17 (ENInews)--In their first meeting after the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Russia, Pope Benedict XVI and President Dimitry Medvedev expressed t...

TORONTO (RNS) The mayor of a Quebec town says he will appeal a decision by a human rights tribunal that bans prayer at city council and ordered...

WASHINGTON (RNS) House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King is facing grassroots pressure to cancel his planned hearings on the "radicalization" of U.S. Muslims....

Because of a significant bud­get shortfall, the Presbyterian-related San Francisco Theological Seminary has announced that it will close its 21-year-old Southern California campus in Pasadena o...

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A  native of England, James Alison converted to Catholicism when he was 18....

NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha's bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha's Enlightenment in...

(RNS) Americans haven't heard much about upcoming congressional hearings on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims, yet more than half think it's a...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A proposed House bill will require the use of "mother" and "father" by all federal agencies and contractors when describing...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Many economists warn that the government's huge national debt is a looming threat to long-term prosperity. But is it also immoral? ...

The White House's 2012 budget proposes significant cuts to...

Twain wearied of lecture tours and struggled with guilt over his absence when two of his daughters died. In his final years, the public seemed to want Twain himself more than his books.

Not long ago, European religious cinema thrived. Now, religion typically appears in films only as a problem--and the solution to that problem is usually liberated sexuality.