VATICAN CITY — Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s academic career has been crowned with numerous distinctions, to which was recently added the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, a sort of equivalent to ...

Editor's Note: Please find the full text and English translation of Pope Francis' homily as he presides over Vespers alongside bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About six months ago, Americans’ belief in ...

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The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History, by Michael Rosen (Belknap Press, 2022), 416 pages. We find ourselves living in increasingly secular times. For some of course, ...

Secularization theory attempted to expose religion as a myth, but the tables have turned. Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud–collectively called the Masters of Suspicion–supposedly wreaked havoc on Christian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent Pew Research survey on religious identification, almost 30% of Americans now identify with no religion, an increase of ...

I want to begin here with the closing statement of my last installment: “Self-secularization does not always involve direct falsehood, nor is it found only in formal presentations, such as speaking, ...

Two of the leading sociologists of religion over the past thirty years, Nancy T. Ammerman and José Casanova, join Boisi Center director Mark Massa, S.J. for a conversation about how to think about ...

Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his giant, if metaphorical, chainsaw, we learned a lot about the U.S. Agency for International Development ...