The first post-Christian generation has officially emerged in America: According to a 2018 study, a majority of the so-called Generation Z — all Americans born from 1999 to 2015 — rejects the idea of ...
Zealots remain plentiful, but the statistically average young American is losing religion. But even as major faiths and major research universities part ways, an ancient religion is reconstituting ...
The term "Paganism" may conjures up images of witches or other occult practices. If so, learning more about the history of Paganism, as well as its modern forms, is probably a good idea right about ...
It is often said that paganism disappeared after the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. But the reality was far more ...
Not to life or well-being or faith or — make no mistake — a pleasant afterlife. But to the confused morass of ethical and moral issues that unsettle and harass our every waking moment, which we ...
I've implied in earlier articles that the notion of genuinely ancient roots for contemporary paganism is something of a red herring. We've looked very briefly at some of the strands that filter into ...
Whether we are talking about pre-Christian or post-Christian paganism, the task of the Catholic is always the same: to bear witness to Jesus Christ. The question is: How? In the New Testament, ...
We tend to think of Christianity over against paganism in the Roman empire but we have to be a little bit cautious about what we mean by paganism. First of all paganism itself is really not a religion ...
What do pagans actually believe in? GK Chesterton's famous quote is frequently invoked: "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing – he believes anything." Unfortunately ...
Paganism encompasses a diverse community with some groups concentrating on specific traditions, practices or elements such as ecology, witchcraft, Celtic traditions or certain gods. Wiccans, Druids, ...