Given the recent move on Mosul, Iraqi Christians hope their time in exile is soon coming to an end.
Religious Freedom
Posted inFaith, News
Attract followers, don’t proselytize, says Pope Francis
Pope Francis asked people to follow the example of St. Therese of Lisieux.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Report finds American Catholics have lots to learn about Islam
Fewer than two in 10 U.S. Catholics hold a favorable view of Muslims, with many possessing little understanding when it comes to the beliefs of the world’s second largest religion.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
If the G.O.P. gets its way, party politics could be coming to a pulpit near you.
The Johnson Amendment currently prohibits churches from engaging in overt political activity.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Who Speaks for Islam?: Muslim authorities call for an end to militant violence.
“Why don’t they speak out?” Faced with the savage persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, that is a question one often hears as the atrocities of the so-called Islamic State continue in the name of Islam.
Posted inFaith, Features
He Held These Truths
John Courtney Murray is the most significant Catholic theologian the church in the United States has ever produced.
Posted inFaith, Features
Is Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice?
From 2000: In a “multicultural” society shouldn’t anti-Catholicism be a dead issue?
Posted inPolitics & Society
Religion and Politics in India
Suppression of religious minorities and its nuclear blasts have made India visible to the world.