Over nearly the last year, the bishops have gradually ramped up a forceful and united defense of the American pope’s ...

The group’s endorsement by Republican governors — at least eight so far — has stirred debate about free speech in America’s ...

Throughout both of Trump’s terms, he’s done so many things that I thought were going to be over the line, and it never happens,’ said Matthew Sutton, a scholar of religious history at Washington State ...

Pope Leo responded firmly to Trump’s scathing criticism. A deeper dive into our archives explains how the exchange might well ...

Women have long been more religious than men. But a new study finds the gap closing as more young women under 30 identify as ...

From its earliest centuries, Christianity was bound up with politics, with frequent tensions between government power and ...

Trump has issued repeated broadsides this week against history’s first U.S.-born pope, accusing him of being weak on crime ...

Long-standing Christian narratives about Islam continue to inform political language, argues a sociologist of Islam.

The story is unglamorous and simple, and somehow the utterly perfect antidote for the cruel zeitgeist of 2026 America.

Religion News Service (RNS) proudly announces that a record number of its reporters have won prestigious 2026 Wilbur Awards, ...

The Vatican had said fighting corruption in the mineral-rich central African country would be one of the themes of Leo’s ...

UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, and the International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said in a joint statement on ...