What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.

Jude Law gives us a nuanced portrait of a too easily satirized character: the Catholic cleric.

President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland's first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.

Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.

Migrants and refugees must be given a dignified welcome, the pope said in his New Year's message.

I haven't heard much from Jesus lately. But today I saw him, sketched in pencil by the hand of a mass murderer.

Eyes of faith see things in the world that others insist are just not there.

Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.