The newspaper for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, El Semanario, warned this week that overcoming the confusion between anti-clericalism and secularism is a goal that is still decades away from being ...

In the cloud of dust that passes for public rhetoric these days, few epithets stir up passions as quickly as accusing an opponent of being a "secularist," or some variant of the term. To embrace ...

A mixed crowd of students, faculty and community members listened intently to the soft-spoken speech entitled "Secularism in the Islamic Republic of Iran" given by Abdulkarim Soroush, one of Iran's ...

The leaked draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has led many to recognize the grim ends-justify-the-means relentlessness of the American religious right. It ...

Secularism is deadly, but it’s on the rise in both Europe and the United States. When will we ever learn? An unnamed Catholic priest is led to his execution in Kalisz, Poland, in 1939. (photo: Tadeusz ...

Thousands of Indian Muslims took to the streets across the country on Friday as anger over new citizenship legislation grew. Violent protests have erupted since the controversial law was passed by the ...

In 1991, James D. Hunter published Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. In his book, Hunter claimed that abortion, women’s rights, gay rights, court packing and other moral controversies were ...

A state court in northern India has urged the government to maintain equal distance from all religions, emphasizing the need for an anti-conversion law to preserve public order and freedom. “The state ...

In most parts of the world, religion is dying. In North America, millions of people are walking away from the church, millions more are eschewing religious identification, and numerous surveys are ...

In a split 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the Quebec Court of Appeal has refused to suspend the application of Sections 6 and 8 of Quebec’s law “respecting the laicity [secularism] of the State” ...