"The children of this age marry and remarry,” Jesus observes to his contemporaries as they try to snare him with a trick question on marriage laws. Rules barring from Communion divorced Catholics who remarry without a prior annulment may be in for . . .

While the heroic martyrs of 2 Maccabees are “ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors,” the popularity of marijuana even where it is illegal suggests many Americans have no problem transgressing the law when it comes to the drug . . .

“Pray for us,” implores the author of the second reading this Sunday, while reminding the Thessalonians to be vigilant and aware that “not all have faith.” Aware of the plurality of a society where some are of one faith, some of another, and some of no faith . . .

Differing faith traditions have caused conflict which has even led to torture and death, as this Sunday’s first reading reminds us. For a better way of trying to understand each other, some are borrowing a page from the speed-dating format. "Speedfaithing" . . .

"A sense of humor comes from faith, a faith that everything is in God's providential hands, a faith that frees us up to laugh."

Religion-based complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have doubled in the last two years to about 4,000.