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March 2024

March 02, 2024

Faith leaders have been protecting migrant rights for years

Religious beliefs can provide motivation, hope and endurance in the long and often discouraging task...

January 2024

January 22, 2024

Latin America’s colonial period was less Catholic

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial...

January 03, 2024

100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university

Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted...

September 2023

September 13, 2023

The History of the Cross and Its Many Meanings Over The Centuries

Sept. 14 is the the Feast of the Holy Cross celebrated by many Catholics and...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Just about anybody in America can officiate a wedding, thanks to the internet – and one determined preacher

Who did the honors: clergy, a justice of the peace or just a friend? More...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

We praise people as ‘Good Samaritans,’ but there’s a complex history behind the phrase

Samaritans still live in Israel, where they are often caught between Israeli and Palestinian identities.

February 2022

February 22, 2022

How Lourdes became a byword for hope

St. Bernadette’s visions of the Virgin Mary in the 19th century inspired the pilgrimage site...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Controversy over Communion in the Catholic Church goes back some 2,000 years

Biden is not the first public figure to whom the Catholic Church wants to deny...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

Cancel culture looks a lot like old-fashioned church discipline

Excommunicating a church member, like 'canceling' someone on social media, serves to cleanse the body...

May 16, 2021

Ancient Christian thinkers made a case for reparations that has striking relevance today

The biblical story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

Why parts of Good Friday worship have been controversial

Prayers and symbols have the power to bind people together, writes a religion scholar, and...

March 2021

March 10, 2021

US army chaplain Emil Kapaun advancing toward sainthood

In early Christianity, soldiers could be baptized only if they refused to kill other human...

January 2021

January 05, 2021

Armenians displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh fear their medieval churches will be destroyed

A peace deal brokered by Russia ended the war on Nov. 9, but the rich...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

How to fight Holocaust denial in social media – with the evidence of what really happened

As social media platforms fight Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, online archives offer another possible approach:...