Women’s empowerment in contemporary India and, indeed, much of the world is measured in terms of the extent to which religiously-sanctioned gender norms that are restrictive of women’s agency are ...

It’s mid-December, a cloudy, humid day in Jacksonville, Florida, and I’m in the corner of a second-grade classroom watching a teacher and 17 students power through a phonics lesson. The day before, ...

Fangezhuang is a village in Yanqi, a town in northeastern Beijing's Huairou District. Wu Shuming lives with her family in a courtyard in the village. Wu has always adhered to the virtue of showing ...

It’s a common sight: A young person shifts from the Communion line leading to the eucharistic minister to the one leading to the priest. He then drops to his knees and sticks out his tongue for the ...

Thousands of Filipino Catholics walk 24 kilometers from Quiapo Church in Manila to the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo City, Rizal, in an annual penitential ritual called the Alay Lakad. (Credit: The ...

This nation and her tradition of patriotism has been safeguarded at a high price and lovingly passed down from one generation to the next, for nearly 250 years now. The Fourth Commandment, given by ...

Once upon a quieter, humbler time—Guru Nanak Jayanti was about devotion. People rose before dawn, bathed in cold water, that could awaken the dead, and sang Asa di Vaar — the day was one of reflection ...

My interest in American Marian piety and theology in the United States began through stumbling upon some online resources over 10 years ago when I was doing my doctoral work. For some light relief, I ...

The most important of Socrates' questions, or rather his criticisms, to Euthyphron is about whether piety is a trade between God and man. This question is important because if piety is a transaction ...

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IT is almost always a challenge for policymakers to craft laws in response to real stories of neglect. When mindful lawmakers like Sen. Ping Lacson filed a bill obligating children to care for their ...