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As part of “Believing,” The New York Times asked several writers to explore a significant moment in their religious or spiritual lives. Sign up to receive the latest installments of “Believing” in your inbox. It was a listless day, one without any signs of doom. Then, as evening approached, I got a call. On a…
Douthat: Does a safe pair of hands mean an Italian? A member of the curia? Cardinal Parolin? Dougherty: I have nothing against Italians, but I hope not. It’s hard not to dread Cardinal Parolin because he seems comfortable with the chaos of the last decade. Douthat: Dan, your choice or prediction? Hitchens: It’s the hardest…
The walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are aging plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the cathedral’s half-finished foundations fill with rainwater. Ghana’s former president, Nana Akufo-Addo, spent around $58 million of…
When Arianna Salerno first moved to Washington, D.C., in 2022 to attend Catholic University she didn’t see many people wearing cross necklaces. But in the past year, she says she has noticed an uptick of the jewelry each time she takes the Metro, and they are now a regular presence on Capitol Hill, where she’s…
For 12 years, Pope Francis was the most powerful Christian on the world stage, using his voice to elevate the poor and the marginalized. Millions of progressive Christians in the United States, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, considered him to be a powerful counterweight to a rising conservative Christian power. He was the magnetic center for…
The police lined the departures curb, eyes peeled for the cardinal arriving any moment at Terminal 1 at Kennedy International Airport. It was 6:32 p.m. on Tuesday, about 39 hours after the death of Pope Francis had been announced. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York was booked on AZ611, the 9:10 p.m. ITA Airways…
Inside a centuries-old monastery atop a mountain in western Syria, a priest swung an incense holder on a chain, led his flock in melodic chants and delivered a timeless sermon on the importance of loving one’s neighbor. But when the congregation gathered for coffee after the service, their current worries surfaced, about how peaceful Syria’s…
Martin E. Marty, a pre-eminent religious historian, prolific author, dependable exponent of mainstream Protestantism and staunch champion of pluralism, died on Tuesday in Minneapolis. He was 97. His death at a retirement home, where he had lived since 2022, was confirmed by his son Peter. In more than 60 books, thousands of articles and as…
For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing. The Christian population was shrinking, on its way to becoming a minority religion. America may have been some years behind Europe in the process, but its pews were…
She first entered a church on a visit to Turkey. She remembers feeling a sense of calm so overpowering that she purchased a small Bible. She wrapped it in her clothes and smuggled it back to her hometown, Isfahan, in central Iran. Artemis Ghasemzadeh’s conversion from Islam to Christianity evolved over a few years starting…
