Christianity’s history with sex is much more complicated than you might think. By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that […]
Source: RNS RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) Dr. Olimpio Moraes is used to being at the center of controversy. He’s been excommunicated twice by Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church for actively supporting […]
Source: BBC Fernando Cardenal, a Nicaraguan priest who defied Vatican orders to leave the revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, has died aged 82. Father Cardenal was one of several […]
Source: The Guardian As many as 200,000 Catholics are expected to cross four bridges from El Paso, Texas into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on Wednesday to see Pope Francis in a […]
Source : The New York Times As the Zika virus spreads in Latin America, Catholic leaders are warning women against using contraceptives or having abortions, even as health officials in some countries are advising women not to get pregnant because of the risk of birth defects. The challenge posed by […]
Reuters International FEB 13, 2016 – 02:24 By Philip Pullella and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a […]
Source: RNS (RNS) No, really. That’s the word from semi-official Vatican media, not the Onion, the totally absurd satirical newspaper. How did this get through the blanket coverage of all […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! be strict in observing justice, and be witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or against parents and kindred. Whether he be rich […]
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) For the first time in 450 years, a citadel of Protestant worship in England — the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace — echoed to the sound […]
Epigraph: All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and […]
Cardinal Reinhard Marx said the response to the migrant crisis should not solely be a matter of “charity but also reason.” Photo: DPA Published: 06 Feb 2016 The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all […]
Source: The Guardian It has been 2,000 years since Romans gathered at the Circus Maximus to watch chariots roar around the racetrack, but a new battle was brought to the […]
Source: Crux With just days left before Iowa casts the first votes in the presidential nominating contests, Republican candidates have been crisscrossing the state touting their Christian bona fides, appealing to […]
Source: The New York Times KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Hillary Clinton is Methodist, but she rarely talks about her faith on the campaign trail. On Monday, at a town-hall-style event in […]
Source: The New Yorker The election of Pope Francis, in 2013, had the effect, among other things, of displacing the painful story of priestly sexual abuse that had dominated public […]
Reuters International JAN 10, 2016 – swissinfo.ch By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis calls in a new book for Roman Catholic leaders to be compassionate shepherds to a “wounded humanity”, not lofty scholars quick to condemn and exclude people who don’t obey Church teachings. The book, “The Name […]
Rosie Scammell | December 10, 2015 | 22 Comments VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has said that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake organized efforts to convert […]
Suggested reading: The Best Collection to Introduce Islam to the Fellow Christians Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every tragedy has a silver lining. The […]
Huff Post: The women mystics of Christianity lived courageous and often radical lives. They pushed their bodies to the extremes of survival, challenged societal norms and, occasionally, died for their faith. They were rebels and renegades who helped shape Christianity as we know it today. Like their male counterparts, these women sought a connection to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post And the majority of them say they are unlikely to return to the church. Roughly half of Americans […]