Indonesia 's human rights minister has proposed the enactment of a religious freedom law to end discrimination against minority groups in the Muslim-majority nation.

St. John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986 at Rome’s main synagogue, believed to be the oldest Jewish community in the ...

The author, a lifelong Catholic, expresses concern over the alignment of the Catholic Right with President Trump's policies.

Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pontiff — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope.

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

Was Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong subject a study of saintliness? A new book on his religious faith provides ample evidence of ...

Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but 'Stone Yard Devotional' does its intellectual heavy lifting at ...

A "Black Mass" is a ritual performed as a parody of a Catholic Mass that religious groups criticize as sacrilegious.

Catholic groups got a court to suspend Fabián Cháirez's religiously themed exhibit, but the same judge now says the suit has no merit.

Like elsewhere in America, the Irish of Syracuse faced widespread prejudice and discrimination in the 19th century.

There is now legal precedent at the federal level suggesting that states may never shut down worship entirely again.

The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was ...