‘As we navigate these turbulent times, I encourage you to make truth your guidestar,’ Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, told attendess of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious ...
Appropriate to the days in which our lot is cast are the words of lamentation, “Truth is fallen in the street” (Isa. 59:14). In every department of human life truth is despised, doubted, rejected, or ...
Last Dec. 7, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the landmark document of the Second Vatican Council on religious liberty, Dignitatis Humanae. This pithy, 5,700-word declaration emerged from the ...
Since 1993, the president has formally recognized January 16th as Religious Freedom Day. The day marks the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which cut formal ...
Churches are — or were — places where people gathered to celebrate and to mourn, to pray and to socialize, and to learn about the truth as their denominations presented it. Most folks used to look to ...
People often refer to Indonesia as the largest, most tolerant, and most moderate Muslim country in the world. At a time when many Muslim countries globally have been involved in political conflicts, ...
Q: There are so many religions in the world and they all have their good points. Isn’t one religion as good as another? If not, how does one distinguish true and false religion? — R.S. A: Few terms in ...
The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue met for its tenth full assembly this past week to focus on the theme: “Dialogue in truth and love. Pastoral orientations.” On Saturday, Pope ...
Donald Trump sparked a firestorm of criticism from liberals, conservatives and those in between when he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. But while such a ban is unlikely to be ...
She championed both abolition and women’s rights. And she wasn’t afraid to challenge advocates of either cause. The answer, according to Smith, is the moral complexity of Henson, a former plantation ...