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While more Native Americans living on reservations attend college than in decades prior, just 10.3% earned college degrees in 2020.

For over a century, coal has transformed central Appalachia. All the while, religion has been transforming in the mountains, too. Labor and religion are deeply entangled here.

The question at the center of the case, Chiles v. Salazar, is whether a therapist who uses talk therapy to try to convince minors to change their sexual orientation or gender identity is protected by a First Amendment right to free speech.

Tragedies like the Sept. 28, 2025 shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan are part of a longer pattern.

Faculty overwhelmingly agree that "colleges and universities should provide support for students of all religious, secular, and spiritual identities and backgrounds."

"Confession is hard," Dorothy Day once said. "You do not want to make too much of your constant imperfections and venial sins, but you want to drag them out to the light of day as the first step in getting rid of them."

"Making that American dream a reality involves seeing farmworkers for who they are, I believe: vital members of the body politic who reconnect all Americans to nature through the foods they eat," writes history professor Doug Sackman.

What we do in our free time says a lot about what makes us happy. 

States must exercise their full diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to let aid in at the scale required to avert famine, writes Amra Lee, PhD candidate in protection of civilians at Australian National University.

Native American groups were aware of the region’s dramatic features. Since the national park’s creation, other faiths have also been inspired by its beauty, from Christians to New Age groups.

 Data from 2022 shows that immigration was on the radar for Catholic leaders before the second Donald Trump administration.

The important question is not whether new technologies are good or bad. What matters far more is whether we can learn to share the responsibility of stewardship – whether we can all be partners in what this new industrial revolution is making possible.

Cardinal Robert Prevost's leadership roles in Chicago and Rome were essential in his formation. But his time in Peru best prepared him to take on the challenges of directing the global Catholic Church.

While the overwhelming majority of Christian religious leaders accept the human-driven reality of climate change, nearly half have never mentioned climate change or humans' role in it to their congregations. Further, only a quarter have spoken about it more than once or twice.

If funding cuts continue, the world could face higher rates of annual new HIV infections by 2030 than at the peak of the global epidemic in 1995.

Conventional wisdom about nonreligious Americans' voting misses some important distinctions.

St. Patrick's Day was once a solemn feast day when you'd be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there's even a color known as St. Patrick's blue.

Building a global response to the climate crisis requires us to learn about the many ways people make sense of climate change and learn to live with its consequences. And for most of the world's population, a purely scientific framing is unhelpful.

Vice President JD Vance and several bishops of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church are having a war of words over the Trump administration's flurry of executive orders and highly publicized immigration raids. This debate reflects long-standing tensions among Catholic — and other Christian — thinkers and practitioners about moral obligations to people with whom we have closer versus more distant relationships.