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As this era's debacle of a democracy comes groaningly to an end, I find myself feeling less and less satisfied. Relieved that it's almost over, yes. Satisfied, no. The fact [...]

Editor's note: Like the rest of the country, we at the National Catholic Reporter have been intensely focused on the run-up to the U.S. elections. The coronavirus pandemic, economic devastation [...]

First in a two-part series In September, thousands of Christian Zionists met in Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot to cheer on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to [...]

Michael Gerson has been the most articulate conservative voice opposing Donald Trump since the real estate baron first announced his candidacy for the presidency A serious conservative and a serious [...]

Two recent press releases from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops highlight the fact that the nation's bishops, as a body, still have not figured out how to deal with [...]

Elisabeth Dias at Time magazine reported in August on a letter from a group of evangelicals who advise President Donald Trump. The letter was sent to Pope Francis requesting a [...]

Many adjectives and adverbs came to mind as I read the blockbuster article, 'Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the USA: A surprising ecumenism,' in the Italian Jesuit-published magazine La [...]

The leader of the nation's most prominent group of gay churches warned President Bush that his plan to funnel federal money to religious groups will 'unleash a backlash of righteous [...]

A recent run of meetings in the nation's capital may have been a nightmare for strict church-state separationists, but the gatherings showed, in this election year, that religion has become [...]

A leading interfaith group has released guidelines for political candidates, advising them not to cooperate with controversial voter guides or engage in religious mudslinging. The Interfaith Alliance, founded in 1994 [...]

Speaking to the U.S. bishops at their June meeting, Bishop Anthony Pilla of Cleveland, conference president, recognized the opportunities and dangers the church faces as it attempts to be a [...]

A quarter of a million Catholics, culled from magazine subscribers and donor lists, last week found solicitations in their mailboxes from the far-right-wing political organization, the Christian Coalition. Catholics are [...]

I spent part of a recent weekend with the Catholic wing of the religious right. Nice people. But politically too immature for self-government. The occasion was a gathering of charismatics […]