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Religiously affiliated organizations can clash with politicians on humanitarian aid to migrants, raising issues around religious freedom and hospitality to newcomers.

The use of sport as an evangelical tool is not new for the Catholic Church. Pope Pius X welcomed athletes in 1905 for the first international gymnastics competition in the Vatican gardens.

"Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change," Rob Barrett writes. 

"Since antiquity," writes Joanne M. Pierce, "many theologians, preachers, monastics and other Christians have embraced the role of humor as a valuable part of Christian spirituality.

A Danielsen Institute research team found taht among a sample of Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders, nearly one-third scored above the clinical cutoff for PTSD symptoms related to work stressors.

The future of some jobs and businesses across the ocean economy have also become less secure as the ocean warms and damage from storms, sea-level rise and marine heat waves increases.

June 4, 2024, marked the 40th anniversary of "Born in the U.S.A.," Springsteen's top-selling album. But its message continues to elude many listeners.

Torn between "the American dream" and fears of an ungovernable "melting pot," Americans have always viewed immigrants ambivalently.

In the 20th century, an engineer from Philadelphia encouraged others to create their own Mary gardens and established a company that sold seeds with Marian plant names.

Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.

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

Perspective: Touch is central to caring for the dying. Human dignity is at stake when the Supreme Court hears death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's plea that his pastor be allowed to lay hands on him as he is executed.

Every pope for the past 50 years — except John Paul I, who died after a month in office — has spoken and written about environmental issues.

For us climate scientists the COVID-19 pandemic has brought some new and unexpected insights. Here are three things we have learned.