RELIGION

With cheekiness and fawning excitement, comedians meet Pope Francis
- By West virginia digital
- . June 14, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — “It’s a like a meeting of every poorly behaved kid in church, and they stuck them

Pope Francis will be the first pontiff to address a G7 summit. He’s raising the alarm about AI
- By West virginia digital
- . June 14, 2024
BARI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is no stranger to artificial intelligence — a deepfake photo of him in a

Ruing past boarding-school abuses, US Catholic bishops consider new outreach to Native Americans
- By West virginia digital
- . June 14, 2024
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops want to assure Native Catholics that they don’t need to feel torn between their

A Deaf Missions Film’ comes to theaters
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
(RNS) — Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a Deaf child,

How faith found a place in Palestine solidarity encampments
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
(RNS) — At the University of Rochester’s Palestine solidarity encampment, in the quiet of a spring sunset, a large circle

The Reformed Church in America to vote on restructuring
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
(RNS) — In the past five years, the Reformed Church in America, one of the oldest denominations in the U.S.,

Southern Baptists pass resolution calling for strictures to curb IVF
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting passed a resolution Wednesday (June 12) calling for more

Rev. James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
(The Conversation) — Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was

A trans hermit reminds us that the church once saw sex difference as a matter of degree
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
(RNS) — Hard on the heels of a Vatican document adamantly rejecting trans and gender fluidity and condemning gender reassignment

Apparent Gaza activists hurl paint at homes of Brooklyn Museum leaders, including Jewish director
- By West virginia digital
- . June 13, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at