November 12, 2024, 8:16am Churches & Religion
A new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 has been temporarily blocked after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday. Read story
November 12, 2024, 8:03am Churches & Religion
As U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory will hang over the proceedings. Read story
November 10, 2024, 6:00am Churches & Religion
After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his supporters gathered in a lobby to sing “How Great Thou Art,” reciting from memory the words and harmonies of a classic hymn, popular among evangelical Christians. Read story
November 9, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion
Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Read story
November 9, 2024, 5:49am Churches & Religion
As dusk falls over the City of Light, a new spectacle is illuminating Saint-Sulpice church, a monument whose interiors are even larger than Notre Dame’s — and arguably just as breathtaking. Read story
November 9, 2024, 5:49am Churches & Religion
John Albert’s daughter isn’t going to school on Friday. And he couldn’t be happier about it. Read story
November 2, 2024, 5:59am Churches & Religion
Farmers and their horses walked in a festive parade through the small Bavarian town of Warngau on Sunday to honor their patron saint, St. Leonhard. Read story
November 2, 2024, 5:59am Churches & Religion
When 101 people were laid to rest at Chicago’s Mount Olivet Cemetery last Wednesday afternoon, no family or friends were there to mourn them. Yet they were certainly not alone. Read story
November 1, 2024, 8:35am Churches & Religion
It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. Read story
October 31, 2024, 8:12am Churches & Religion
Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the banks of the river Saryu in a northern Indian city they believe to be the birthplace of the deity Lord Ram. Read story