The thesis represents a challenging and culminating academic experience in a Religious Studies major’s scholarly career at Bates. Each student develops a thesis topic in the first semester of the ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Russell T. McCutcheon had a Zoom call with the chair of a religious-studies department who wanted to get ahead of what has come to seem like an existential crisis in the field.

I spent all my years of education in Catholic schools except kindergarten, where I attended Kenny School in south Minneapolis, and one quarter of my undergraduate studies at the University of ...

One year, for Hanukkah, my grandmother gave me the Book of Mormon. She was not trying to convert me. She was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was Jewish, though a ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — After 21 years of directing the “Catholic Studies” program he founded at the University of St. Thomas, professor Don Briel has decided to retire and pass the torch to the new ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- From Chicago, to Peru, and now to The Vatican. An American is chosen as the leader of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected on Thursday, taking the ...