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 ...

For this speaker, religion is a man-made illusion to maintain social and political control. If his words express more than a hypothetical point of view, this would be the first unmistakably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...