Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in his second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person “must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them.”
Aaron Alexis had a gold Buddha in his room, a regular meditation practice and a gun with him "at all times," according to a friend. At one point, he aspired to be a monk. He wound up a killer. Of the many details that have emerged ...
On Thursday, Pope Francis said in a historic interview that the Catholic Church talks too much about abortion. The following day, he gave his most forceful anti-abortion comments to date. What's the strategy here? Since becoming pope last spring, Francis has electrified people with gestures ...
Chechen? American? Immigrant? Citizen? Muslim? Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be all of the above, but how Americans attempt to come to grips with the attacks allegedly perpetrated by the brothers has much to do with how Americans identify them. The ...
Organized religion is often defined by specific do’s and don’ts. Now comes Pope Francis with his emphasis on being humble and helping those who hurt.
Pope Francis belongs to the Jesuits, a religious order whose members take an unusual — and at the moment seemingly ironic — vow: not to strive for a higher office. The Jesuits' culture of modesty and self-effacement has been on full display in recent days, ...
In the United States, Muslim women trying to maintain modesty should get female-only hours at the public pool, right? What about Wicca troops who want a chaplain of their own, even if there are only a few thousand of them in the military? And Catholic business ...
