Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

An Iraqi Christian is shown during preparations before Pope Francis visit at the main stadium in Irbil, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.) Listen ROME – Perhaps the most ...

In these heady days of a new pope, Pope Francis, we must not forget the real gifts that our Pope Emeritus Benedict has given us as his legacy — and the ways that Francis is carrying forth what ...

The Muslim world is not a monolith. It contains far more disagreement about the future of Islamic politics than is imagined by those who think that all Muslims are “Islamofascists.” Nothing ...

The following review of Dario Antiseri’s book, L’invenzione cristiana della laicità (Rubbettino, 2017) appeared June 9, 2017 in Avvenire. Whether “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar ...

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Courtesy of Yo sí quiero un Estado Laico Costa Rica Yo sí quiero un estado laico (I do want a secular state) is a collective that deeply believes that religion and the state should be separated so ...

(RNS) — People who reflexively invoke Israel’s right to exist conflate the right of a nation to exist with the right to oppress. (RNS) — The state of Israel wants you to think it’s a democracy. But ...

As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based solely on principles derived from the material world. As a political system, secularism is commonly defined as the separation of religion from ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority effectively declared on Tuesday that the separation of church and state—a principle enshrined in the Constitution—is, itself, unconstitutional. Its 6–3 ...

Although the Constitution still says that Malta's religion is Catholic, in a general way there is political consensus that the state should be run along secular principles like the rest (or almost) of ...