Religion

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — It is as complex a legal case as the Vatican court system has ever prosecuted, with 10 lay and religious individuals on trial, including, for the first time in history, a cardinal of the church. The defendants are…

(RNS) — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday (May 20) that he has barred House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Communion in his archdiocese because of her support for abortion rights. Let’s put aside for a…

CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) — A private Christian university is considering strictly limiting the free speech rights of its students when it comes to sexuality and gender, from how they behave to what they wear and what they can say on campus…

(RNS) — American Airlines isn’t a religious company, but if you wander around their corporate buildings you might stumble onto an ablution station for Muslim purification rituals, a Jewish employee group meeting or even Father Greg…

(RNS) — The report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s handling of sexual abuse, conducted by the independent review firm Guidepost Solutions, is unsparing in its criticism of the actions, and the inaction, displayed by the…

(RNS) — The details in the report are nothing if not shocking. A former Southern Baptist Convention leader stepped inside the Florida beachside condo of a pastor’s wife, 24 years younger, pulled down her shorts, pinned her to the couch,…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Two days after Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco announced he would bar her from receiving the Eucharist in her home city due to her stance on abortion rights, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly…

(RNS) — There’s an old saying about Southern Baptists’ annual meeting: After all is said and done, more will have been said than will have been done. But last June in Nashville the Southern Baptists broke the rule as the gathered…

Religion Communicators Council honors 19 for work during 2021 NEW YORK — The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) announces 19 Wilbur Award winners to honor excellence by individuals in the secular media for communicating religious…

For the past three weeks, for the first time since the end of February, the biggest and boldest headlines in the New York Times have not been about Ukraine. They were about America. The threat to Roe v. Wade, with the very real…