On the first day of consultations on Bill 9, Quebec municipalities expressed concern the proposed secularism law would open ...
Quebec’s enhanced secularism law would ban daycare staff from wearing religious symbols. Groups representing daycares and ...
The discussion also drew in recent controversies and court-linked disputes around Waqf properties, minority rights and Centre–state tensions John Brittas and Tejasvi Surya at MBIFL 2026 Questions ...
Jean-François Roberge opened public hearings into Bill 9, the Quebec government’s latest attempt to strengthen secularism in ...
During an address at his alma mater last week, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth discussed the rise of secularism in Britain and how Christianity in contrast enables ...
The rise of a secular culture, combined with an increasing number of self-identified atheists and agnostics in western societies, has led to a certain amount of handwringing among religious believers.
In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...
The 67 million Catholics in the United States represent just six percent of the global Catholic population of 1.2 billion, but we sometimes have a hard time understanding how the other 94 percent ...
IT SEEMS FITTING that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ attempted deletion of God from the Pledge of Allegiance was eclipsed the next day by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding ...
Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...
Editor’s note: On Sunday’s Op-Ed page, sociologist Phil Zuckerman took aim at those who blame increasing secularism in this country for a host of societal ills, including recent mass shootings. He ...