One of my favorite speeches in recent history was delivered by Barack Obama at Notre Dame University ten years ago. In it he warned against the particular kind of self-righteousness for which the ...

Interfaith couples in India face significant hurdles registering marriages under the Special Marriage Act, with sub-registrars often engaging in moral policing and demanding bribes. Despite the law's ...

The article explains that secular courts can't resolve religious disputes involving doctrine or church governance, unless they use neutral, secular principles. Courts can review church documents and ...

The law has a neutral view of religious belief, the president of the Family Division said today, stressing the secular nature of the judges’ job. In a keynote address to the first annual conference of ...

A new study found that 2025 graduates of Catholic law schools are not only more focused on ethics, service, and community, but they are also more likely to be practicing law than graduates of secular ...

Democrats are generally disinclined to discuss religion, much less debate it. They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were famously atheist, Thomas Jefferson and dozens of other ...

There is an awful lot of nonsense written about religion, My approach has always been to study the actions of religionists, not their texts. (This is usually impossible for intellectuals, who are ...

Legal reforms in Abu Dhabi designed to enhance the emirate's appeal to foreigners will allow for non-Muslim judges, birth certificates for children of unmarried parents, equality of men and women as ...