Religion News Service selected 13 who made their mark this year, speaking out on a range of contentious issues and challenging the nation to live up to its values. Some railed against embedding ...

Michael Novak, a Catholic philosopher who helped carve a space for religion in modern politics ... “denied that the human person was made in the image and likeness of God, and it’s that ...

But the overall picture, according to his former staffers and reviews of his public comments, was never one of a politician who made religion a central part of his public identity — unlike some ...

He made it hard to pretend that love could be regulated. He reminded us what religion could be at its best: not a wall, but a window. He said: "The thing the Church needs most today is the ability ...

“He’s trying to make good on policy promises he made during the campaign to evangelical Christians,” said Shaun Casey, the director of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion ...

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