Religion

Yasmeen Suri sparked ridicule after claiming that the Barbie, which offers up several "guided meditation exercises," was demonic.

The pontiff has previously said that bishops should "not going around condemning or not condemning."

British filmmaker Tim Kirkby said about the new comedy he is directing, “It is a pleasure to roll around in the world of our anti-heroine Joyce McKinney.” Others have said Kirkby’s forthcoming film will “delight audiences worldwide” and they praised the “witty” script.

In a recent story about the governor candidates' positions on abortion, I was struck by how devout the Republicans are. They all claim to be praying to end abortion, which brings me to my point. Where Wisconsin's top 10 gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidates stand on abortion. Six months out...

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who announced Friday that he would bar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to her stance on abortion, said that the timing of his announcement had "nothing to do" with the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade.

In the wake of the massacre in Buffalo , we have all, naturally, tried to understand what could have caused someone to commit such a horrific act of violence . This young white man linked his motivations to fears about demographic and cultural changes in the U.S., dynamics that he believed were resulting in the replacement of “the white race.”

"I said what I said. Get offended," Georgia's GOP gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor said Thursday after receiving criticism online for her comments.

The Catholic Church has become the target of criticism following a decision by the conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco to deny U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi her Communion rites because she supports abortion. In a letter sent to Pelosi on April 7, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone warned her that she...

According to Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, American parents were recently polled regarding their greatest fears for their children and decision to marry. “In the old days parents would worry about their children marrying outside their religion or outside their race,” Goodwin says. She then goes on to cite the recent poll which indicates that today, a parent’s worst fear is a child marrying outside of the parent’s political party. This marks a very troubling reality for both America and the Christian faith.

The archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is Catholic, can no longer receive the sacrament of communion because she has declined to back down from her push for abortion access. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote in a public post Friday that his "many requests"...

In open defiance of Pope Francis, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Friday banned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from taking Holy Communion here in her home diocese. The reason? Her strong support of women’s abortion rights. Cordileone’s decree was guaranteed to provoke deep chagrin among San Francisco Catholics and...

A rare book, written in the 17th century and predicting alien life on Saturn and Jupiter, has been discovered in England – and now it may sell for thousands at auction. Back in the dark ages, things were a lot simpler. Humanity knew its place in the universe, and that place was right in the center, surrounded by the orbiting Sun, Moon, six other planets, and eventually, some kind of large star-flecked dome that held the whole thing like a gigantic snow globe.

Pelosi has described herself as a "devout Catholic." What happened: The archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, said Speaker Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive Holy Communion in her home diocese after repeatedly defending abortion rights over the past month. "I have determined that the point has come in which...

Nancy Pelosi won't be receiving the body of Christ anytime soon -- at least not her in hometown -- as one of the holy shot-callers there says it's a no-go ... all over abortion. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone -- who's a major decision-maker for all things Roman Catholic in and around...

As tensions rise over the rights of religious business owners who oppose same-sex marriage, research shows Americans are divided over the role faith should play in professional choices. Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults think someone’s “religious beliefs and values” shouldn’t influence their business decisions, while 48% think they should, according...

A church founded by a pupil of St David, the patron saint of Wales, is set to hold its final service due to dwindling congregations. Believed to have been started in 583, St Madoc of Ferns in Haroldston West is closing 1,439 years after being used as a place of worship.

An upcoming Pride event for LGBTQ teens to be held at a Florida church on Saturday has ignited public anger and protest threats, according to WBBH-TV, an NBC affiliate in Southwest Florida. The Youth Pride Conference is geared toward students between the ages of 12 and 18. The event is...

Click here to read the full article. At an empty beach bar in Corozal, a shaggy town of a few thousand people just minutes from where northern Belize meets Mexico’s share of the Yucatan Peninsula, waves crash into a jagged, rocky breakwater. It’s 9 p.m., the kitchenis about to close, and the only people left are some young, very loud, and very sober American missionaries. Another languid Caribbean day is winding down, but my dinner companion, Moses Michael Levi “Shyne” Barrow, has no desire to linger over a meal and conversation. He’s shoveling in his fried fish, rice, and beans...