Michael J. O’Loughlin

The Washington Post reports on the recently freed Americans who were being held in an Iranian prison accused of spying during a hiking trip when they accidentally crossed into Iranian territory Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the retired archbishop of Washington DC played a role in the talks Bef

As young people in the US increasingly reject formal religious traditions they are increasingly charting their own course for rituals that once took place inside a house of worship The Washington Post reports on a growing phenomenon of couples choosing friends or family to officiate wedding ceremo

The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima

The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima

NPR profiles Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a Washington veteran who has served in Congress and who was most recently head of the CIA Panetta cites his Catholic faith as something that helps to inform his life-and-death decisions For the past two years Leon Panetta was at the center of the U

It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec

The great Protestant theologian Karl Barth is purported to have said A preacher needs a newspaper in one hand and a Bible inthe other As someone who dabbles in both news and theology I take Barth s point to be that for Christians neither realm should exist without the other the world should be

I wrote about my experience visiting a medical school anatomy lab a while ago and I described how viewing human bodies in such intimate detail caused me to consider the spiritual and epistemological dimensions of human life One Catholic medical school in Chicago also recognizes the spiritual dimen

Do you have a Jesus fish on your car and if so why That question is explored by blogger Fred Clark at Patheos who writes about witnessing tools and Christian Evangelicalism nbsp He says that witnessing to the faith is taught to Evangelical Christians from a very young age and then explores

Fr Mychal Judge the fallen chaplain of the Fire Department of New York City will be honored with a statue in front of his former parish according to a story from Religion News Services via The Huffington Post When All Saints Church sought to signal its hospitality to gays and lesbians the Ca