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Change is afoot in the Catholic Church’s handling of divorced people who have sex within subsequent marriages. Long a point of lay dissent and inconsistent practice, at least in democratic capitalist…

When the pope told an Italian paper on Sunday that the rate of pedophilia in the church was about two percent (a number that is 50 percent lower than the rate found in the US report of the problem…

In the following clip from The Posner Show, Sarah and Columbia Law School’s Kara Loewentheil discuss how a letter urging Obama not to include a religious exemption in a forthcoming executive order…

What kind of God would punish people with a storm?

This weekend a plane flew over Coney Island and the Rockaways towing a banner with a swastika and an ad for proswastika.org, a new initiative by the Raelians—a religious movement that believes humans…

Sixty-nine f aith, civil rights, women’s, LGBT, secular, and other organizations sent a letter to President Obama this afternoon, urging him not to include a religious exemption in his planned…

Five things happened to our ancestors of the 17 th of Tammuz and five things happened on the 9 th day of Av. On the 17 th of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken, the daily temple sacrifice was…

Music to stay safe by.

Over 50 legal scholars have signed a letter organized by the Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, urging President Obama not to include a…

The systematic abuse of the free exercise clause strikes again. In this latest episode, according to bloggers at Hot Air and the American Conservative, “ he Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a…