An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for…
On Oct. 11, 2023, a new memorial was unveiled at the site of the 1911 fire. A cadre of young Jewish women helped push for…
Politicians have used their assumptions about Gazans to support their policies. But the people in Gaza experience these…
Vaccine policies fall on a spectrum, from mandates to recommendations. Deciding what to use and when is not so much a science…
Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish…
Ruth’s headline-grabbing home runs helped his sport recover from scandal, while his own story helped combat anti-Catholic…
In minority faith groups that already face hate, women who have experienced harassment sometimes fear bringing negative…
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right…
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
A scholar who studies alternative expressions of spirituality visited secular, atheist and psychedelic churches and interacted…
The Al-Aqsa mosque, a flashpoint in Hama’ recent assault against Israel, hosts daily prayers and Friday gatherings. It…
Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in…
Efforts are being made to develop the capacity of Native tribes to manage bison and bison habitats. An Indigenous scholar…
Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the…
As the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome, a Catholic theologian explains the preparations that went into the consultative process…
Medieval monastics were often discouraged from owning companion animals, which were viewed as a distraction, a religion…
The College of Cardinals is an important part of the church’s governance structure. Its members elect the next pope and…
If you’ve decided to look for coffee that’s better for the earth or the people making it, you might need some help translating…
Catholicism, ‘Frenchness’ and secularism are often conflated in French culture, a scholar writes, while non-Christian…
The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language…