Film review: Is Fahrenheit 11/9 truly incendiary?
Source: BBC News Fahrenheit 9/11, the 2004 screed against George W Bush, remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. But many argued that despite its box-office numbers it had little […]
Florence is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane through landfall
Hurricane Florence Expected to Strengthen as It Barrels Toward North Carolina Coast Source: Time By CIARA NUGENT, ALIX LANGONE, and GINA MARTINEZ Hurricane Florence is tracking farther north and is expected to gain […]
A Bishop Says The Church Will Cooperate With Vermont Investigators After BuzzFeed News’ Investigation Of Abuse At A Catholic Orphanage
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Talal Ansari The Diocese of Burlington will cooperate fully with authorities looking into allegations of abuse at the St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bishop Christopher Coyne said Sunday, […]
Catholic clergyman calls on Wuerl to resign, says he’ll refuse to participate in Mass with him
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 10 at 2:37 PM A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic declaration calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign, […]
NY attorney general subpoenas state’s Catholic dioceses in connection with sex abuse investigation
Source: CNN By Mark Morales and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN)The New York attorney general has issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil […]
Unprecedented mass denials from a U.S. asylum program leave Christians from Iran stranded in Vienna
Source: Los Angeles Times By SARAH PARVINI Even as it cracked down on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa, the Trump administration stressed that the safety […]
Stirred by Sexual Abuse Report, States Take On Catholic Church
Source: The New York Times By Sharon Otterman and Laurie Goodstein Attorneys general across the United States are taking a newly aggressive stance in investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, opening […]
The Princeton University Press Wants the Muslim Times to Review this Book, for Our Commitment to Interfaith Tolerance
Christian Martyrs under Islam Publisher: Princeton University Press By Christian C. Sahner, who is associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Cross […]
Catholic Schools And Parents Grapple With Whether To Address Abuse Report
Source: NPR By SARAH SCHNEIDER During the first Mass of the school year, two students at St. Bernard Elementary School in suburban Pittsburgh stand in front of the congregation and lead […]
Catholic priests accused of having sex in a car spark international uproar
Source: Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. September 5 at 2:55 PM The men having sex inside the Volkswagen Beetle were so involved that a Miami-Dade police officer said he […]
Amish couple sues 2 agencies over photos their faith forbids
Source: Associated Press By RICK CALLAHAN INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Amish couple with 13 children sued the federal government on Wednesday, accusing officials of violating their constitutional rights by insisting […]
Small Missouri college ends Nike affiliation over Colin Kaepernick ads
Source: Yahoo News BY Nick Bromberg The College of the Ozarks wants you to know it does not like Nike’s ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick. The private Christian school located south of […]
A teacher made a Hitler joke in the classroom. It tore the school apart
Source: New York Times Ben Frisch opened his Feb. 14 pre-calculus class at Friends Seminary the same way that he opened all his classes over the course of his 34 […]
President Trump Is Using His Anti-Mueller Playbook on Woodward
Source: Time By BRIAN BENNETT and RYAN TEAGUE BECKWITH For President Donald Trump, Bob Woodward presents a similar challenge as Robert Mueller. The two men are veterans of the Washington Establishment, respected by […]
Ayanna Pressley: African-American woman wins Massachusetts primary
Source: BBC News Ayanna Pressley is set to become the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress in Massachusetts, following a primary upset. The 44-year-old Boston city councillor beat […]
Is God Alive or Dead: A Metaphor for the Scriptures from the US Constitution?
A growing share of Americans (55%) say the Supreme Court should base its rulings on what the Constitution “means in current times,” rather than what it “meant as originally written.” […]
Joe Biden Was Spotted Running and Everyone Made the Same Joke
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME September 3, 2018 Former Vice President Joe Biden was spotted running in Pittsburgh on Monday, and the internet couldn’t resist turning it into a joke. Biden […]
Abraham Lincoln’s administration sought the advice of Muslims on the issue of slavery
Abraham Lincoln’s administration sought the advice of Muslims on the issue of slavery. In 1864, General Pasha of Tunisia wrote to the U.S. Sec. of State urging him – “in […]
How the South Memorializes — and Forgets — Its History of Lynching
Source: Time Text by Sherrilyn Ifill | Photographs by Johnathon Kelso Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 black Americans were killed by lynching in the United States. Our nation has always preferred to […]
Former ER Actress Vanessa Marquez Shot and Killed By Police After Pointing BB Gun at Officers
Source: Time By GINA MARTINEZ Former ER actress Vanessa Marquez was shot and killed by California police after pointing a BB gun at officers, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau detectives confirmed. […]