Why you should care about the Second Baptist Houston lawsuit

If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind…

Junipero Serra, credited with spreading the Catholic faith across what is now California, was canonized in 2015. But critics say the priest was part of an imperial conquest that enslaved Native Americans, raped their women, and destroyed their culture.

A.R. Bernard has resigned from the White House’s evangelical advisory council, the first departure from that board in the wake of President Trump’s widely condemned comments on a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The pope reiterated his message from February at an international forum on migration and peace that “our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate” migrants and refugees.

As three other advisory boards disband following the president’s response to the Virginia violence, Jerry Falwell Jr. tweets support for Trump.

The group, founded in 2003, has grown from a local organization to a burgeoning statewide apparatus with eyes on someday becoming a nationwide force, one able to mobilize conservative Christians around the country into future political battles.