Religion News Service

Fr. Thomas Reese: Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear.

A window for filing new lawsuits under a 2019 California law for decades-old abuse will close Dec. 31.

"It's important that we unify, and we work together, and share the teachings to protect our sacred areas because once God, once our sacred and holy places are gone, we will no longer exist. Our religion will be gone forever," said one Native American activist.

'The government protects historical churches and other important religious landmarks, and our site deserves no less protection,' Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr. said.

It is doubtful that whatever the bishops say will have much effect on the 2024 election. It is sad that the church does not have a prophetic word to say when our country and the world are in crisis.

The bishops waged a long war against Roe v. Wade and won this past June with the Dobbs decision. As the bishops gather in Baltimore this week, will they acknowledge the collateral damage caused by their tactics?

Former financial auditor Libero Milone seeks his day in court after claiming he was forced to resign by a ‘small mafia’ at the Vatican.

Conservatives fear the pope will give into public pressure; liberals fear that the hierarchy will reject their reforms. Francis, on the other hand, is focused on improving the mission of proclaiming the Gospel.

Conservatives, independents and liberals should be able to support tackling climate change as a path to economic success and human security, as well as the morally right thing to do.

‘The ideology of Christian nationalism helped motivate and intensify the insurrection,’ read the letter to the committee, signed by the heads of several major denominations.

A Reform rabbi and a longtime columnist for Religion News Service, James Rudin has met with popes, presidents and world-famous evangelists in his efforts to improve Jewish-Christian relations.

Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized a recently renewed Vatican deal with China, saying it emboldens the Chinese government to crackdown on Christian communities.

My heart goes out to the seminarians who are going through the current trauma of change under Pope Francis, because I went through the same trauma after Vatican II.

Members of the pope's opposition are well situated to gather like-minded cardinals in the sort of conspiratorial meetings not known since the Middle Ages. 

People want the church to be a home for the wounded and broken, not an institution for the perfect.

Meier spent years arguing that faith and scientific research could enliven biblical scholarship about the life of Jesus.

A prominent Catholic parish in Chicago denounced abuse allegations against its popular pastor and demanded an investigation into those allegations be resolved quickly.

"There's really no space in the nonprofit world, racial justice world or the ministry world that is just for women of color."

New air quality sensors, a collaboration of a multifaith coalition and local scientists, are tracking harmful pollutants in the city where predominantly Black neighborhoods are disproportionately exposed.