Religion
A section for news and explainers on religion news — from the latest goings-on at the Vatican to explainers on Ramadan.
The internal politics informing the church’s reaction to the clerical sex abuse crisis.
Carlo Viganò, former papal nuncio, says Francis knew about McCarrick’s abuses and lifted sanctions against him anyway.
Almost two decades after the Boston Globe’s reporting, secrecy and bureaucracy have delayed justice.
Decades of child sex abuse scandals have eroded Irish trust in the Catholic Church.
A week after the Pennsylvania report, people are calling in new allegations of Catholic clerical sex abuse.
It’s like Burning Man, but for Muslims. Okay, it’s nothing like Burning Man.
In an open letter, Francis writes that “we showed no care for the little ones.”
The pope’s revision to the Catechism calls capital punishment “inadmissible.”
Church leadership says “political action is not personal conduct.”
Marc Randazza has also defended the founder of a neo-Nazi site, the Daily Stormer.
Months after Bill Hybels stepped down in disgrace from Willow Creek Community Church, his successors have resigned.
The Catholic Catechism will argue that “dignity of the person” prohibits capital punishment.
Fifty-five percent of Americans pray daily. That’s a statistical anomaly.
The roots of the war over “religious liberty” — the subject of a new Justice Department task force — explained.
The Justice Department’s latest move is another nod to Christian nationalism by the Trump administration.
Journalist and author Jeff Sharlet on the National Prayer Breakfast, Maria Butina, and the group that calls itself “the Family.”
Theodore McCarrick has resigned from the College of Cardinals after allegations of abusing both children and adults.
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, DC, on Friday.
Clare Bronfman is allegedly a leader in Nxvim, the controversial sex organization that also claims Allison Mack as one of its members
“It’s about the survival of the Christian nation,” said one woman — expressing the white backlash politics at the heart of Trumpism.
Robert Jeffress says evangelicals knew Trump was “no altar boy.”
A Christian think tank makes the case for better child care policies.
In Putin’s Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses are labeled “extremists” and accused of being American spies. Still, they keep their faith alive.
Paula White uses Jesus’s sinlessness to defend Trump on family separation.
Kavanaugh will move the Court sharply to the right — but some conservative critics say it’s not enough.
All four of Trump’s top picks have frequently defended the rights of religious institutions.
At the EPA as throughout his political career, Pruitt blurred the lines between church and state.
A new study shows that churches were becoming more diverse over the past two decades. Then Trump happened.
Forty-four percent of white evangelicals support laws banning refugees altogether.
Pastor Robert Jeffress led a “Freedom Sunday” service at First Baptist Church Dallas.
It’s a culmination of a six-week Christian-led campaign against income inequality and racism.
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, has been suspended from ministry.
Francis also had harsh words about Trump’s environmental stance.
More than 600 United Methodist Church clergy and members have brought up charges against the attorney general.
Longtime Trump ally Franklin Graham just slammed the policy.
Romans 13 has long been incorrectly used to defend government oppression.
The vice president caused controversy speaking at the evangelical group’s annual meeting.
The vice president is a controversial speaker choice.
After the Paige Patterson scandal, American evangelicalism’s largest denomination is asking, “What next?”
The far-right government claims it’s due to “national security” concerns.