Religion News Service

Is there an ethical or spiritual way to kill an animal?

That’s the question that animates "Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret," the forthcoming documentary that suggests Jesus and many of his early followers opposed the killing and eating of animals. 

Demos II is a fraud who mourns a church of the past and his own loss of power in it.

The process for choosing a pope is not divinely inspired. It is a human creation that has changed over time and can change again.

Church Militant, the far-right Catholic media network, will cease operating at the end of April, according to a press release issued March 1 by the law firm Todd & Weld LLP. 

While reductive narratives depict priests as perfect heroes or evil villains, truth is more complicated, says Fr. Stephen Fichter, writer and producer of the streaming movie "Trinity's Triumph."

In her new book Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley centers Black emotions, experiences, memories and bodies in every prayer, mantra and poem.

"Wishing partisanship away is not going to work," writes columnist Thomas Reese. "Short of a miracle or a national catastrophe, partisanship is here to stay."

The lawsuit from Ken Paxton's office "seeks to revoke Annunciation House's authorization to do business in Texas and asks the court to appoint a receiver to liquidate their assets."

"When presumably educated, responsible politicians sound as if they are preaching from a bar stool," Phyllis Zagano writes, "what can the rest of us do to remove angry denigration from whatever other pulpit we might be near?" 

If the U.S. is going to experience a eucharistic revival, then it needs liturgical texts that promote the full and active participation by all people in the liturgy. The current text in English does not do that.

"As there's ashes on our head, there's also blood on our hands because we cannot exempt ourselves from what this country is doing," said the Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor emeritus of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ.

A new documentary about the Virgin of Guadalupe — the vision of Mary, the mother of Jesus, seen by a 16th-century Mexican peasant — premiered Tuesday (Feb. 13) at an event in Los Angeles attended by the city’s archbishop.

Fasting is an act of penance for what we in the rich world have done, and it is a prayer for help in avoiding catastrophe.

"Their lives are so much more complicated and distracting than mine was," Br. Larry Schatz, vocation director for the Christian Brothers Midwest province, said of young men discerning religious life. 

The Catholic partisan divide provides an opportunity for the church to model proper civic behavior, writes Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese.

God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza, says Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese.

Rome's move to allow LGBTQ couples to be blessed has been misunderstood by many, and misrepresented by others.

America's religiously unaffiliated, or "nones," are largely defined by what they are not, rather than what they are. So as they've multiplied, it's perhaps unsurprising that they've also been shrouded in myths and misconceptions.

Francis did the right thing in allowing priests to call God's blessing down on couples who are trying to love in the best way they know how. That may be different in the West than it is in Africa.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a $1 million grant to leaders of the Church of God in Christ as part of a national program to plant and maintain trees in American cities. Vilsack said 'structuring this program so that it's empowering more tree planting and more workforce development gives us the opportunity to partner with the church.'