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Why is the Vatican cracking down on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious? 

Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.

To understand the Vatican’s crackdown, look beyond the politics of abortion and same-sex marriage to the theological conflict raging in the Catholic Church.

You may have never heard of True the Vote, but the organization has major plans for upcoming elections across the country.

Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.
 

American Jews could play a useful role in aiding our Israeli cousins to see that they are destroying what was noble about their country. Why won't they?

The bishops want to put a stop to the nuns’ focus on social justice. Thanks to their second-class status within the church, the nuns have little recourse.

What makes this case exceptional is neither race nor the politics of self-defense alone but the total failure to investigate it for so long.

Mark Jordan and Jay Michaelson seek hope for gay religious practice in heretical churches and the Hebrew Bible.