“I don’t give a shit if this is comedy or not,” Donald Trump told the crowd.

Robert and Michelle King’s show fits an enormous story about the fallibility of humankind inside a network procedural.

Kevin Roberts, leader of the Heritage Foundation, is closely linked to Opus Dei.

Louisiana Republican Representative Lauren Ventrella failed miserably to defend the law she co-authored.

The Colorado Republican seems to have conveniently forgotten about all the commandment violations in her own life.

The rise of trad Catholicism is sowing discord at religious institutions—including Benedictine College, where the NFL kicker made his controversial remarks.

Priests in the Archdiocese of New Orleans allegedly transported children out of state to abuse them.

The state Supreme Court ruled that priests have a “property right” not to be sued for sexually abusing children.

The Supreme Court’s rightward tilt has the Christian right dreaming of upending public education. But it could come at the expense of conservatives’ big ideas.

The Irish singer-songwriter has died at the age of 56, but she leaves behind a legacy of political activism.

Portraying the Dodgers game protest as one led by “religious groups” is technically correct, but it fails to communicate the threat of political violence some of the organizers openly embrace.

The French showed this week why the U.S. Congress needs to launch a commission on clergy sexual abuse of minors.

The bishops’ shameful resolution to deny communion to the president is hypocritical and out of step with Catholic public opinion.

Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.

A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts

A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face

Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

Edir Macedo has a church, a bank, a TV channel, and a Moses complex. And with the election of Jair Bolsonaro, he has emerged as the country’s most controversial kingmaker.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Catholic Church has become a powerful voice for democracy. Now, it is trying to ensure a fair election.