Aimee Maddonna, 34, a South Carolina mother of three, was turned away by a state-funded foster care agency because she is Catholic.
Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics
The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies
Southern Baptists’ Midlife Crisis
In the summer of 1979, conservatives within the Southern Baptist Convention gathered in Houston for their annual meeting with the goal of seizing control of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Jimmy Carter Returns To Teaching Sunday School After Hip Surgery
The 94-year-old former president returned to Maranatha Baptist Church on Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
Bishops take another try at addressing abuse, accountability among their own
When the bishops gather in Baltimore June 11-14, their meeting will be anything but pro forma.
Mother Emanuel’s forgiveness narrative is ‘complicated,’ says reporter-turned-author
Four years ago on June 17, when Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church became national news, Jennifer Berry Hawes was one of the first reporters on the scene to cover the massacre.
In St. Louis, former houses of worship are retooled to meet the city’s needs
St. Liborius Roman Catholic Church in Old North St. Louis, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was once called the “Cathedral of the North Side.” More recently, the massive structure has been appreciated on social media as “the…
7 facts about Southern Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention has been in the news recently amid questions over its pro-slavery past and allegations of sex abuse. Last year, one of the denomination’s key seminaries fired its president over an alleged cover-up of rape.
Southern Baptists descend on Alabama, epicenter of abortion debate
Representatives of Southern Baptist churches regularly affirm their belief that life begins at conception as well as their opposition to abortion. Next week, they coincidentally will be gathering in Birmingham at a time when the national spotlight is focused on…