Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has bolstered religious rights and now could change America's public schools.

The Court’s Christian right makeover of the Constitution enters its endgame. During an oral argument on Wednesday, the ...

A major test of the separation of church and state asks the Supreme Court to allow the country's first religious charter school in Oklahoma.

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A ruling for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would allow direct and complete taxpayer funding for a ...

A decision to allow a Catholic school to become a publicly funded charter would profoundly impact American education, experts ...

Religious charter school supporters frame denying an application to operate a religious charter school as the same kind of ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of ...

Typically, the conclave gathers to select the new pope 15 to 20 days after the death of a pope. The conclaves must start after the “ Novemdiales " period, Latin for “nine days,” in which a period of ...

As the world’s most exclusive club prepares to elect the new pope, they face an immediate test of just how seriously they ...