A new Gallup poll released earlier this month shows more young men in the U.S. say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women — the first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years. Gallup’s latest data shows ...

DALLAS (AP) — Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms, including making Bible stories required reading for students. The biggest drive yet to put the Ten Commandments ...

The snow is melting. I hate to say that too loud for fear that Winter will hear my delight and make his white and cold snow pile up again. I also know when the warmth is even sneaking into our area, I begin to see bare legs in shorts, mostly younger males shopping in the same aisle as me in ...

BAMENDA, Cameroon — Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict in central Africa considered one of the world’s most neglected crises. Leo traveled ...

Editor's note: Today's installment of Faith and Family was originally published in 2014 As I was driving the other day, I noticed a woman hanging up clothes on a clothesline. It struck me that this very common activity was somehow unusual, in that I had not seen anyone hang out clothes in a ...

Someone asked me the other day about a friend of theirs who told them they were not religious, they were “spiritual”. They asked me what that meant. I have often run into people who have told me very proudly that they were spiritual and not religious. There is a distinct difference. Often ...