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As a defensive Vatican attempts to reclassify the pedophiles it has never ceased protecting, the centrist former editor of America magazine makes a flawed Polanski analogy.

Catholicism is well known as a determined foe of communism, yet most Americans are unaware that Catholicism has also been highly critical of capitalism.

Finally, something Christians, Jews, and Muslims can agree on: Apocalypse. But as the theological end-time visions of the three Abrahamic faiths converge, it is not the wrath of heaven that threatens life on Earth, but all-too-human fundamentalism and fearmongering.

Results of a new poll show that in matters of religion the right and left are in different universes. Why, then, are progressives so insistent on finding common ground?

Despite resorting to demonization and dated paradigms, Max Blumenthal ’s muckraking first book traces the fascinating history of the religious right and its web of gothic and aggressive conspiracy theories—making a convincing case that the Republican Party has been “shattered” by a right-wing religious movement.

Two of the Obama administration’s picks to staff the Department of Labor are coming up for confirmation this week. M. Patricia Smith and Lorelei Boylan face opposition by right-wing business forces, who don’t appreciate the kind of advocacy they represent.

The Olympics don’t always leave their host cities better off than before. So why does Chicago want the games?

It’s important for journalists to be able to parse the distinctions among those who call themselves Christian, tedious as it may be.

When public intellectuals spar about religion, stalemate is often the result; atheists ignore liberal elements within religious traditions, and liberals don’t do justice to difficult truth-claims, like the divinity of Jesus. Critic James Wood has had it with both camps—but does his “third way” make sense?