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My mission is to teach transgender individuals about the sacredness of our environment, emphasizing that it is God's land where all are loved and accepted. 

Disagreements exist over liturgy, the role of women, clericalism, sex abuse, church teaching and cultural and racial differences. But despite these tensions, the report sees reasons for hope.

A survey indicates while many believe Trump’s behavior has been immoral, it may not sway how people vote in November.

The Commission on Faith-based Colleges and Universities, recently announced by the American Council of Education, is set to launch with its first meetings on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a psychologist who served on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and developed a model for social healing.

Part of the new monastic movement began three decades ago among lay Protestants, Spring Forest is a model for how Christians can work, eat and worship as a community.

After months of delay and a legal dispute, the first episode of “The Chosen,” Season Four, will drop on the show’s app at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday (June 2).

Francis has reopened the windows that were closed by John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI, but the church is still an institution that will not change until there is global consensus for change.

"Latinos are poised to be leaders in their communities and nationally on environmental issues," said one panelist at this week's Latino Leader Gathering sponsored by Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Bullying the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal "smacks of the sort of 'conservatism' Pope Francis recently called 'suicidal' on CBS's "60 Minutes," writes Phyllis Zagano.

We commit grave harm against ourselves through environmental destruction and we go against God's plan for us.

In Norah O'Donnell's TV interview, the pope "smiled, he gestured, he laughed, his eyes sparkled," Thomas Reese writes. CBS "has given the American people a unique opportunity to see the pope as he is, unfiltered."

Dozens of church leaders have been kidnapped or killed by government soldiers or rebel fighters in the decade since the civil war began.

While they emphasized their resolve and hope, advocates for women deacons also expressed surprise and dismay at the interview. 

The proclamation comes just two weeks after the priest who founded Homeboy Industries received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.

"You’ve got to deal with us, because God has called us into this church," Brother Christian Matson said. "It’s not your church to kick us out of — this is God’s church, and God has called us and engrafted us into it."

The Archdiocese of Baltimore's plan to close about two-thirds of parishes in the city of Baltimore drew blistering criticism at a recent public forum.

Excommunication, writes Thomas Reese, is "like being denied entry into a friend's home because you did something to upset them. You need to apologize before you are going to be welcomed back."

‘We need to work together if we are to end gender-based violence. We need to involve the government, NGOs, parents, community leaders, women and girls,’ said one evangelist.

The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.