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April 2026

April 14, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed open hostility to Pope Leo XIV. Trump was angered...
April 09, 2026
The Avignon Papacy refers to a period from 1309 to 1376, when the Papacy was,...
April 07, 2026
Saint Thomas Aquinas (Tommaso d'Aquino, 1224/25-1275) developed precepts about the morality of war that influence...

March 2026

March 26, 2026
The Feminist Goddess of the Vimalakirti Sutra The goddess appears about halfway through the Vimalakirti...
March 04, 2026
What is a "just war"?  Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) is credited with formulating...

February 2026

February 22, 2026
MAGA's assault on religious liberty is being under-covered in news media, but it's real.  President...
February 04, 2026
Is empathy a weakness? Recently The Atlantic published an opinion piece by Hillary Clinton titled...

January 2026

January 01, 2026
Does taking an oath of office in the U.S. require placing a hand on a...

December 2025

December 21, 2025
When was Jesus born, exactly? The precise date, including the year, is a mystery. The...
December 15, 2025
The "reindeer rule" is an informal name given to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about...

November 2025

November 26, 2025
Religion and the science of DNA may seem to have nothing in common. But in...

October 2025

October 30, 2025
There are ghost stories in many religions, even though ghost stories and some religions can...
October 23, 2025
President George Washington's letter to the Touro Synagogue of Newport, Rhode Island, is one of...
October 03, 2025
I've seen claims lately that a Third Great Awakening is happening now. I'm skeptical, but...

September 2025

September 25, 2025
Texas has a new prayer in public school law that went into effect September 1. ...
September 21, 2025
The Beat Zen movement was one of the more unlikely developments in all of Western...
September 10, 2025
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was a plain, whitewashed church that stood in the shadow...
September 01, 2025
The Great Flood that covered the world is one of the oldest -- and most...

August 2025

August 03, 2025
The statue stood on Hijirigaoka, a hill overlooking the Japanese city of Hiroshima. When the...

July 2025

July 27, 2025
Preah Vihear, also called Prasat Ta Muen Thom, is a Hindu temple complex at the...
July 20, 2025
Conversos were Jews in Spain and Portugal who were forcibly converted to Catholicism in the...
July 02, 2025
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will be 90 years old on July 6, 2025....

June 2025

June 26, 2025
The crusade to enshrine the Ten Commandments in U.S. public schools reached a couple of...
June 11, 2025
Intrinsic and extrinsic are the two orientations measured in the Allport Religious Orientation Scale. Also...
June 03, 2025
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling has stopped Oklahoma's plan to fund a Catholic charter...

May 2025

May 11, 2025
Pope Leo XIII is in the news, more than a century after his reign ended. ...
May 05, 2025
Catholicism in China poses a formidable problem for the Vatican. The late Pope Francis is...

April 2025

April 14, 2025
Religion in public schools has been a hot topic in the U.S. for decades. It...

March 2025

March 31, 2025
On March 28 an earthquake struck central Myanmar and was felt in several Asian countries....
March 27, 2025
Mahabodhi Temple -- one of the world's most sacred places -- is now the site...
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