We live in a world where conversations about religion and secularity often paint an oversimplified picture. You've probably ...

God has not given up on Europe despite real and serious challenges - but is the church willing to repent, listen and follow ...

By David Ramos The Cristero War in Mexico, also known as the “Cristiada,” was not only an armed conflict but also a head-on ...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has tabled new legislation that would introduce broad new restrictions on religious practices in public and private spaces. On Thursday, Secularism Minister ...

Eight hundred years after the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, over two hundred Italian bishops gathered in the Umbrian city to reflect on the path forward in an increasingly secularized society, ...

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" According to new studies in the sociology of religion, the importance of religion and religious institutions has declined dramatically across the world in ...

The bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) held their spring assembly this week in Italy, a meeting in which they considered the European Union’s vocation ...

Galen Watts is an Associate Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Societal Futures based jointly at St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo. He receives funding from the ...

In the classic narratives of adultery, such as those of David and Bathsheba or Lancelot and Guinevere, infidelity was viewed as a profound transgression against divine law and moral order. Adultery ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

In this competent survey, sociologists Cragun and Smith (co-editors of Secularity and Nonreligion in North America) examine the wave of secularization that has been rising across America since the ...