Last year, a new survey from Britain revealed that in the last decade, the percentage of British adults who have no religious faith has risen from 43 percent to 52 percent; additionally, while 10 ...

VATICAN CITY — Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s academic career has been crowned with numerous distinctions, to which was recently added the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, a sort of equivalent to ...

According to a recent study by Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., religion is less important for Americans today than it was a ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

It is time to recognize the usefulness of the concept of the secular for the good of the world. We get the word “secular” from the church because the church made a distinction between secular priests, ...

It may seem a bit bizarre to encounter a title, “The Jesuits and Secularization,” appearing close by the feast of Saint Ignatius. Surely, the sons of Ignatius have imbibed Ignatius’ famous trope about ...

This article first appeared on the London School of Economics site. The religiosity of the United States has impressed observers since the early 19th century, and American levels of religious ...

In the last few years, the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been celebrated as “winter holidays” with “holiday trees” and “season’s greetings.” December has become the month of the “Christmas wars”: ...

A re the humanities over? Are they facing an extinction event? There are certainly reasons to think so. It is widely believed that humanities graduates can’t easily find jobs; political support for ...

During a press conference at the II American Missionary Conference (CAM2), being held in Guatemala, Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada, Archbishop of Guatemala City, warned the greatest challenge the Church in ...