That joking retort we heard as children, "Is the pope Catholic?" is starting to look like a serious question.
Asked five years ago about a "gay lobby" in the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good
Just as the people in Mariners Church began to pull off their hats, bow their heads and close their eyes to pray, Jimmy Meeks snapped at them.
"Get those heads up!" said the pastor and retired Texas police officer.
The obsession of a large majority of conservative American Protestant leaders, known as 'Evangelicals', with unstinting, unqualified support of Israel no matter how outrageous her behavior, is one of the greatest dangers to world peace of our age.
The remarks were apparently made to a victim of clerical sexual abuse and are the most striking acceptance of homosexuality by the Catholic Church to date
Apostles have always been chosen by the president of the church, and in turn the president of the church is the longest serving of the apostles.
Mormons had great missionary success in Europe in the 19th century and consequently the church has had
The devotion with which statists implore their only saving state is often reminiscent of religious rituals of faith. When people keep saying that a world without a state is simply not possible, it almost sounds like the Catholic creed, albeit in smal
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" -Karl Marx
When Barbara Bush died this week, a Muslim university professor at Fresno State University Randa Jarrar, tweeted: "I'm happy the witch is dead and I can't wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise."
A California State Assembly is gearing up to vote on new bill that could ban the sale of books and punish churches that encourage children to stick to traditional gender norms.
On Wednesday, 28 March, 2018, the West Maypole Avenue Church of Christ was having a Bible study that started at 7:30 p.m. At 8:09 p.m., the study was interrupted by 27-year-old Kenneth Baines, who announced an armed robbery. A 57-year-old armed churc
A good deal of my life has been spent in a half-conscious search for places where a healthy person could function as a healthy person: places where health was accepted rather than resented, where it didn't have to be hidden.
Today is Easter, an important Christian holiday. But it is not marked on the calendar that is part of the Apple software that came with my Apple computer lap top. Today is also April Fools day, and that is marked on the Apple-supplied calendar. For A
The world has long since forgiven Julius Caesar. Nobody today finds Socrates or Cicero irritating. Few of us resent Alexander the Great or his tutor, Aristotle.
[Classic: December 2, 1999] - The world has long since forgiven Julius Caesar. Nobody today finds Socrates or Cicero irritating. Few of us resent Alexander the Great or his tutor, Aristotle.
No, only one man in the ancient world is still hated a
For 16 years, conservatives and Christians railed against presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton for the way they exploded the size of government (Obama), ran roughshod over the Constitution (Clinton & Obama), waged unjust foreign wars (Clinton & O
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman met a group of religious leaders in New York, including two rabbis, a rare interfaith gesture for the de facto ruler of the conservative Islamic kingdom that allows negligible religious freedoms.
From Matthew 7:7, 8: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you; for everyone who asks shall receive, everyone who seeks shall find, and the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Or Submit & Pay The Jizya...Will Muslim spokesmen in the West denounce this call as un-Islamic, or remain silent about it? I'm betting the latter, in light of passages like these that make it clear that al-Qadi is speaking in complete accord with t
An Italian archdiocese is embroiled in scandal as reports are surfacing of a gay priest on trial for allegations of blackmail, embezzlement and other crimes.
Rev. Billy Graham died at the age of 99. He was known for his charisma, but said "I despise all this attention on me...I'm not trying to bring people to myself, but I know that God has sent me out as a warrior." USA TODAY