Is religious freedom on the retreat in America? A Trump commission certainly believes that to be true.

The Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness, in Chapter 5 of Lumen Gentium, was a landmark in the Church’s awareness of the vocation possessed by all the baptized. However, ...

What do we lose when we lose organized religion, which has been in steep decline across the globe since 2007? Two new books offer very different answers — and very different approaches — to this ...

Something is happening in the country that is being misread as politics. People of faith are reasserting their place in American public life, the law is increasingly vindicating them and the secular ...

What was religious life like in America in 1776? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat podcast, Professor Catherine ...

Benedictine nuns are pictured in 1900 before the completion of St. Anthony's Hospital in Bemidji, Minn. The image appeared in a 2011 documentary titled "Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America," ...

My community mate and I pull over to the side of the road. We hop out of the car and stuff the large, heavy bags of leaves into the red Prius. We are rescuing these leaves from the landfill and for ...

Something significant is happening to religious life across the US. In just a few decades, remarkably large numbers of people have been leaving organized religion. However, this exodus is not in favor ...

Within Drexel's campus community, there are various organizations, spaces, and resources for faculty, professional staff, and students in terms of religious and spiritual life. Regarding the various ...

Dictionary definitions of God include: the supreme or ultimate reality; perfect in goodness, power, wisdom; who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe; the perfect and all-powerful spirit ...

Not long ago, a young Vietnamese man living and working in Japan called me with a startling question: “Brother, I heard that in religious life there are quarrels, flattery of superiors, and even ...

(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...