Modern-day religion is becoming stifled in the secular age, said Mary Eberstadt, author of "It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies."

During his trip to Poland for World Youth Day, Pope Francis will go to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. He said he wants to go alone and say nothing.

"Everybody is consuming more news today than they ever have before, but in different ways," said John David "JD" Long-Garcia, editor-in-chief of Angelus News. "We're looking for ways ... to connect with people on a larger platform."

Duterte, who won by a landslide in the May elections with 16.6 million votes, promised to "listen to the murmurings of the people" as he vowed to relentlessly fight the "problems that bedevil our country."

We may dismiss the diabolical as unreasonable, but cannot the irrational be real?

Probably not, but it may well prevent sick people in the global South from receiving treatment.

The United States has a long history of arming its enemies.

Oprah has a gift for creating community.

There were 437 incidents of anti-Muslim hatred recorded in 2015, up from 146 the year before.

In recent weeks debate has erupted over whether there are two popes sharing authority in the church, or whether Francis is the sole successor of St. Peter.

Brexit revealed a fundamental divide between the political, financial and journalistic leaders of the United Kingdom and the society they putatively lead.

ColoradoCare grants voting rights over the program to its recipients—including non-citizens.

The pope’s call for Christians to offer an apology to gay and lesbian people was also carefully welcomed this week by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego.

The word of God presents a clear central contrast between closing and opening.

The announcement is an astonishing twist in a political career that saw Boris Johnson serve as lawmaker and mayor, building a public profile built on Latin quips and rumpled eccentricity, while nurturing a poorly concealed ambition to lead his country.

The international community must eventually relocate the more than 60,000 Syrians trapped in the remote desert near the border to safe countries, said Doctors Without Borders, adding that Jordan cannot be expected to shoulder the responsibility alone.

While many may think Israel is a land of conflict, the hospital is but one example of inter-religious harmony, a pocket of peaceful co-existence.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Washington state pharmacists who said they have religious objections to dispensing Plan B or other emergency contraceptives.The justices' order leaves in place rules first adopted in 2007 following reports that some women had been

"Social conservatism definitely played a role, not only with the bishop's pastoral letter, but more so because of the perceived liberalism of the PRI in general."