By Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter In light of abuse crisis, Australian prelate calls for complete rethinking CHICAGO -- The roots...

VIENNA -- Austria's cardinal has overruled one of his priests and is allowing a gay Catholic to serve on a parish council. Florian Stangl lives in a ...

Passover doesn't have to mean sacrificing flavor for faith. Though many ingredients are not suitable for consumption during this Jewish holiday, there...

By Sarah Bronson Jewish Agency for Israel Mivasseret Zion, Israel (April 2, 2012) -- The little girls stood on stage holding up a child’s painti...

By Naomi Zeveloff The Jewish Daily Forward Rachel Brook, a 29-year-old vocalist living in Brooklyn, was born to a Jewish Israeli father and a non-...

The eight day. Moses calls for Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. "Take a young bull as a sin-offering," he says to Aaron, "to atone for the Golden Calf."

Jesus may not have risen, but an art historian thinks he knows why the apostles believed. Thomas de Wesselow explains what the Shroud of Turin can ...

Why is this book different from all other books? The Haggadah -- a Jewish ritual book used on the holiday of Passover to tell the story of the bib...

The life of Jesus has been the inspiration for many artistic works throughout the history of art. This volume traces many important events in the life...

Terry Jones will demonstrate in Dearborn on Saturday, and his lawsuit against the city will move forward, the Thomas More Law Center confirmed Thursda...

Out of the depths of slavery in Egypt, the Jewish people rose to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai. Beginning on the second night of Passover, when the...

ROME — Pope Benedict XVI encouraged those threatened by unemployment and other economic woes to draw courage and strength from the suffering of ...

The following is an excerpt from 'The I Ching: A Biography' by Richard J. Smith. What makes a classic? First, the work must focus on matters of gre...

By Jessica Calefati and Ryan Hutchins Religion News Service NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (RNS) A satirical student newspaper is under investigation by Rutg...

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) Even before Mitt Romney swept the first three primaries in April, effectively ending Rick Santorum's p...

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The unexpected death of Thomas Kinkade on Friday (April 6) prompted an outpouring of grief for the hug...

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By Yonat Shimron Religion News Service (RNS) Gabe Lyons thinks Christian culture warriors are on the wrong path. His sixth annual Q Conferen...

Perhaps more than anything else, music elevates the spirit. HuffPost Religion has always loved Sacred Sounds, and we're happy to feature some of our f...

By Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter Several priests of the Pittsburgh diocese have met with Bishop David Zubik -- the prelate who said...

By Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The first criminal case against a sitting U.S. bishop in the decades-long cler...

By Benjamin W. Corn Tablet Magazine The mitzvah of Sefirat HaOmer, or counting the Omer -- the 49 days from the second day of Passover until the d...

T-Pain is a famous rapper-turned-singer and producer, but not many people know how he feels about religion, or that he was raised as a Muslim. Despite...

By Tom Gallagher National Catholic Reporter Chicago agency ties federal awareness campaign to long-standing food programs Theologians who stud...

Statement by George Courtauld, author of 'The Pocket Book of What, When and Who on Earth.' A few years ago I was horrified to discover how very lit...