Exercising their new-found religious freedom, hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to the Holy City of Karbala in Iraq on Tuesday, in a pilgrimage long banned by Saddam Hussein's regime.

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Tuesday marked the first day that Shiite Muslims journeyed to Karbala in a pilgrimage banned for decades during Saddam Hussein's rule. Experts assess the role that religion and politics will play in the new Iraq.

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The Boston Globe on Monday received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism for exposing the sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests that led to changes within the Roman Catholic Church.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a state law banning cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate, ruling that the act is an instrument of terror and not a form of expression protected by the First…

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U.S. forces in the central city of Najaf have reportedly come under Iraqi fire from the Ali Mosque, one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim sites in the world.

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Lee Hochberg reports from Sacramento, California, where citizens turned to prayer yesterday to express their feelings about war and peace.

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Richard Rodriguez considers the 40th anniversary of the second Vatican Council.

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As 2003 dawns, the NewsHour's panel of historians reflects on the year past, discussing scandals in the Catholic Church, Wall Street and the Senate as well as assessing President Bush's 2002.

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A debate on the Church-State issues raised by President Bush's faith-based initiatives…

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Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law released the following statement on Friday shortly after Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation.

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