Religion News Service

Four men were killed by death squads in El Salvador decades ago. Now, as the martyrs are closer to official sainthood, Salvadorans in the U.S. hope the designation could inspire the church to center the poor and marginalized.

Commentary: The Irish government recently declared a national holiday for St. Brigid. A medieval historian explains her fascinating life and history.

"That's how the world changes: When individuals have the courage of their convictions and use their voices to call for change," the climate scientist told Religion News Service.

Some Bible believers look to Noah for an approach to surviving climate change.

"It's a rare moment that I will show my face or bring my specific story into those spaces," Riley said. "I think people will be surprised just how much of myself this book contains."

There are some absurd, cringeworthy — but, also, deeply Jewish scenes in the new season of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." 

Former Vatican envoy and outspoken papal critic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a letter on March 7 blaming "deep state" forces in the United States, the European Union and NATO for triggering the current war and demonizing Russia.

Our generation is frustrated with U.S. Catholic and civic leaders who do not seem to grasp the gravity of our crisis and are unwilling to enact church teaching.

As anxiety over the climate and environmental degradation rises, a scholar argues that teachings from religion and spirituality need to inform discussions on sustainability.

The docuseries is a reminder West's complicated relationship with Christianity reaches back further than 'Jesus Is King' and his recent elaborate Sunday Service events.

Pope Francis has asked us to pray for peace in Ukraine on Ash Wednesday, a day of mandatory fast and abstinence in the Catholic Church. I intend to expand that into a Lent of praying for peace, justice and ecological healing.

Phyllis Zagano: Three Arizona men, congressional candidate Ron Watkins, Senate primary candidate Jim Lamon and Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted, are causing a lot of headshaking in the Grand Canyon State and beyond.

A new online exhibit featuring portraits of Black Muslims launched Feb. 2. Captured in dramatic lighting and paired with audio clips, the portraits highlight the beauty and diversity within the Black Muslim experience.

Carmen Santiago Alonso showed that 'an Indigenous church and the church with a feminine spirit is possible,' said a Catholic priest at her funeral.

My difficulties with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger began after I became editor of America Magazine. Within a couple of years, Ratzinger, through the Jesuit superior general in Rome, was signaling his unhappiness with the magazine. 

Participants at contentious school board meetings about teaching history and mask mandates should take a lesson from Bible scholars: There are many voices with stories to share.

The spiritual idea of a more perfect union is in jeopardy. How we respond to our nation's brokenness is our challenge, and faith leaders are among those most equipped to take up the call to engagement and healing.

Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94.

Thomas Reese: Ever since he was elected pope, Pope Francis has been trying to reform the Vatican Curia, the bureaucracy that is supposed to help the pope in his ministry to the universal church. He has had only limited success.

To learn his new role, Smith connected with the Catholic Labor Network, a nonprofit that promotes the cause of workers and Catholic social teaching in labor unions and parishes.