Below is an excerpt from "On Faith," an Internet feature sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect ...

"Adultery, fraud, and manslaughter are mortal sins." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatise VII," c. 250 A.D. "The clergyman who is deposed for mortal sin, shall not be excommunicated." St. Basil the ...

Then each went to his own home. But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appears again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The ...

An Indiana pastor received a standing ovation after confessing his sin of adultery, but that applause quickly turned to anger after a church attendee added an important detail: She was 16 at the time.

Definitions can be unpleasant things to consider. Recently, in a public presentation in which I referred to the current crisis of sexual immorality and the networks of deception among some priests and ...

Theologians love to take a piece of scripture and analyze it in all its parts. They will look at words in the original scripture that we call the Bible today and compare it other ancient languages, ...

In words, adultery is in the eyes of the one being cheated on. (That sounded snappier in my head, honest. Really. Hey look, there's a bonobo!) It stands to reason that if one of the main wrongful ...