Tom Catena, who risks his life daily to provide medical care in an African war zone, examines what it means to be a good Samaritan.
Rodrigo Duterte, known for his controversial statements, sparks new outrage in Asia's largest Catholic country. Political and religious leaders are quick to denounce him as "evil" and a "madman."
Now that fundamentalists have their man in the White House, they are running another assault on democracy that would make the late televangelist Jerry Falwell proud.
Celebrating Mass with impoverished people in the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis denounces those who dismiss poverty as "not my business."
The head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese believes the solution must balance love and law with justice and mercy -- regardless of legal status.The head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese believes the solution must balance love and law with justice and mercy—regardless of legal status.
Every holiday season, we're told to think about Jesus. But how much do we really know about the man? We turn to a religious scholar, the Rev. Madison Shockley, to find out.
The presence of artificial marks on a person’s body is not a flat rejection of God’s design. It is substituting one god for another.
The pontiff argues that the modern economy's worship of the "god of money" leads to disenfranchisement and extremism.
Palin's endorsement of front-runner Donald Trump this week was a master class in surrealist poetry. Geniuses of the Dada movement would have been humbled by her obliteration of the bourgeois concept we call logic.
Killing in the name of God is not a new thing in history -- and nothing does more to discredit faith.Killing in the name of God is not a new thing in history—and nothing does more to discredit faith.
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