Atheist Christopher Hitchens wrote a 98-page screed denouncing Mother Teresa - the Albanian nun credited with comforting thousands of dying people in India and encouraging others to aid the poor and dying.

Bill Donohue comments on an article published by Serge Larivée et al. in a Canadian journal, Studies in Religion, on Mother Teresa.

Author Vargas Llosa pays tribute to Pope Benedict and credits the Catholic Church with preserving Classical and Renaissance cultural traditions.

Snoopy and Charlie Brown would be upset.

"The notion that the awe-inspiring levels of functional complexity and specified information found in the simplest of living bacterium is the result of some mysterious unguided undirected process is an extraordinary claim."

Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has filed suit against the Catholic Diocese of Peoria concerning a homily pronounced by Bishop Daniel Jenky.

The façade of a “humanistic” atheism is only able to stand as long as one accepts the basic principle, as espoused by the Declaration of Independence – based on the opening chapters of Genesis – that every human being possesses infinite preciousness.

Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago depicts religion as a socially dysfunctional opponent of evolutionary theory.

The Philippines, which has an ongoing struggle between Muslims and Christians, has the highest proportion of believers in the world.

Not to be anywhere, no touch or taste or smell—this is to be disembodied, to be something other than human. The very thought of it will keep you awake, aware of this life, this body, this time, and this place.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said he would have like to have met and chatted with Hitchens, "beyond the controversies and preconceived attitudes."