Q: Your essay on intellectualizing and denying grief was sent to me by a valued friend. You describe very effectively the truth that to love "guarantees the experience of loss." And yet, not to love?

Cousin 1 says he believes the guilt his Catholic family taught him was important for his emotional development. Cousin 2 disagrees. She says that same family’s teachings about guilt did nothing to ...

"I can confidently predict Christianity will be a spiritual force long after our civilization has passed away," historian Arnold J. Toynbee said in the third of the Hewitt Lectures yesterday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - You won't find the word "religulous" in a dictionary but it's a good bet it will be on protest signs when the documentary of that name, a jab-in-the-eye at Western religion, hits ...

Pope Francis in Genoa, Italy, on May 27. Photo by Giorgio Perottino/Reuters Last week, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, the religious leader of a billion people, gave the visiting ...

Religions (especially Western religions) concern themselves with proper behavior. This often includes sexual behavior: Religions have much to say on premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery, etc. And ...