The strict hierarchical governance structure of the Catholic Church has the dubious advantage of simplicity and clarity along with increasing implausibility. Divine authority is claimed as its ...

COVER STORY JULY 29, 1968, may prove to be a major landmark in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church—as significant, perhaps, as the moment when Martin Luther decided to post his theses on ...

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A recent poll suggests evangelical voters trust the former president more than religious leaders. But this problem isn’t new. The four-bar graph of the CBS/YouGov poll results, which made the rounds ...

Editor's note: Following our December editorial on the ordination of women, readers asked us for more background on issues that editorial raised. This is the third article in this series. The first ...

A regional branch of the United Methodist Church filed suit against Southern Methodist University for amending its governance documents to separate itself from control by the church. According to the ...

Southern Methodist University and United Methodist Church have been in a legal battle over the university's authority since 2019. In a bid to sever ties with the United Methodist Church, Southern ...

A doctoral student named Marc-Andre Argentino has been following an online home church that is merging Christianity with the QAnon conspiracy theory. He writes: On Feb. 23, I logged onto Zoom to ...