The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, ...

When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying ...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A judge has dismissed an inmate's lawsuit that claimed he was denied his right to worship the divine Flying Spaghetti Monster, was mocked and faced discrimination for his faith.

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

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LINCOLN — A Nebraska State Penitentiary inmate who said he is a Pastafarian who believes in the divine Flying Spaghetti Monster has lost his federal lawsuit against prison officials who he said failed ...