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The scene opens in a bustling restaurant in Delhi, where a young woman leans in close to her grandfather, whose eyes sparkle with memories of his childhood in Lahore, Pakistan. He points to faded photograph of two young boys: “This is me. And this is Yusuf.” Every evening they flew…

As Pope Francis launches a survey of Catholic opinion, a new survey reveals a yawning gap between the leadership and British Catholics.

News last week that holiday decorations in Chicago’s Daley Plaza will be joined this year by a light-up “A” for atheism served as a reminder that though the anti-religion camp may claim victory over believers on many fronts, iconography is not one of them.

What are we to do when the spiritual leaders we expect to give us life take their own? I have been pondering this question, among many others, in the wake of national media reports about the suicide of 42-year old Teddy Parker Jr., pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Will the challenge to build “an homage to the historic/literary Satan” at Oklahoma’s capital actually change anything?

Rick Scarborough uses occasion to claim hate crimes law persecutes Christians.

His district is no more Catholic than the rest of Michigan or the country, but it is heavily Republican.

As so many pundits ask whether it was the 11th-hour activism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that enabled the anti-choice provision to be inserted into the health care bill, our analyst explores a different possibility: Democratic strategy.

Bruce Lawrence’s unflattering review of Ariel Glucklich’s new book on suicide bombers elicited a spirited response from the author.

Out of 23 Democrats who voted for Stupak-Pitts but against House health care reform bill, six are Catholics.