There are about 500 different religious stories concerning the origin of the world. As for the United States, an article in The New York Times shows that the religiousness of the travelers on the ...

The vast majority of the U.S. population does not belong to the Catholic Church, ... (ToM) — another idea that's often cited in discussions about the origins of religion.

Several months ago, I came across a two-volume history of the Church in the United States I’d never read before: Theodore Maynard’s The Story of American Catholicism, first published in 1941 ...

Historians have seriously mangled the facts when it comes to Christianity and the history of the Catholic Church claims a new book from Ignatius Press, THE SCANDAL OF THE SCANDALS: THE SECRET ...

The Origins of Life: A Catholic View Catholic author George Sim Johnston writes that the Catholic Church has ... evolutionary theory turns out to be a rather weak stick with which to beat on religion.

"It's a very old word, antedates the Catholic religion." It wasn't until the Middle Ages that the word conclave came into regular use to describe papal elections.

American religious sisters like St. Elizabeth Ann Seton have been protagonists in the larger narrative of women's history, but that record has often been eclipsed, according to scholars during a ...

The Annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity Emeritus, University of ...