Religion News Service

Congress' budgetary process is broken, unable to enact a reasonable and flexible fiscal policy. Maybe Congress can learn something from how the church elects popes, though: Lock them in until the stalemate ends.

The Pacific Island nation spans a 30,000-island chain comprising three ethnogeographic groupings: Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. As welcoming as these islands sound, over the last 30 years, global warming has been causing trouble in paradise. 

What Jesus' resurrection did to the disciples shows us what impact it should have on us.

In 2013, then-Catholic priest and would-be artist Kevin Barry McGoldrick was transferred from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the Diocese of Nashville, where he became chaplain of Aquinas College.

It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy critics endures as a "road map" for those working on justice and equal rights.

For Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese, Earth Day 2023 will be a day of fear and hope. Hope because humanity is moving in the right direction; fear that we will not make it in time.

Many conservative Catholics are upset with Pope Francis, who they complain is changing church doctrine, but they hardly blinked when Pope Benedict got rid of Limbo, a Catholic doctrine that had been taught for centuries.

Gracie Morbitzer paints her saints with dreadlocks, tattoos, headphones and cigarettes, and commissions of her saints are in churches and schools all over the world.

We see everywhere news of children murdered in their classrooms, soldiers suffering in their homelands, people displaced by famine and politics, and a dying planet. Where is the Easter promise in all this?

Holy Week is the daily life of millions of people around the world who suffer because their consciences tell them to live and work in ways that political and religious authorities find objectionable.

Georgia's clean energy transition is doing what some may deem a miracle — getting Republicans and Democrats to agree.

After I sent a lawyer an analysis on how advances in artificial intelligence could revolutionize the legal profession, he got even by asking ChatGPT to write "a column on AI, written in the style of Thomas Reese, SJ."

These books changed my life. They can change yours, too — though I hope the fact that they are being recommended by the second-worst Jesuit in the U.S. does not mean that they will now be banned from seminary libraries.

Some bishops and lay groups have become the de facto Catholic morality police. Is this evangelization?

The recent threats to the banking system show that libertarian capitalists are hypocrites. They hate government regulations — until they are in trouble and expect the government to bail them out.

A new Pew Research poll finds that only 18% of nonevangelical Americans had favorable opinions of evangelicals; 32% had somewhat unfavorable views.

Francis has changed the style of being pope, attacked clericalism, empowered the laity, opened the church to conversation and debate and changed the pastoral and public priorities of the church.

Pretending our problems don't exist might help us relax in the moment, but it comes with a real cost in the long run.

A Virginia office of the FBI is apparently concerned that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists are seeking alliances with radical-traditionalist Catholics, according to a leaked memo dated Jan. 23.

Churches, with their large parking lots that often sit empty during the week, could help provide a solution to the growing demand for electric vehicle charging stations.