Being kind and welcoming can sometimes be uncomfortable, former chaplain Norris Burkes writes, and that's just fine.

(Penny Shnay/for the Daily Southtown) When Sharon McCarthy of Park Forest heard St. Mary Catholic Church would close its doors in July, she was in a state of shock. “I was devastated,” she said.

Rather, they coincide with the distinctly medieval political struggle between the church and state for influence over the faithful. There has never been a non-Christian president, though political ...

New Zealand's connectivity issues are in the spotlight and Huntly Power Station stocks up to prevent winter shortfall. A pair of Doric columns that once sat outside a Hastings church hall could be ...

During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.

The morning after watching a movie about a wrongly convicted Alabama Black man on death row, I was surprised to see a story ...

Retail in Goodyear Hall and next door includes Marques, LaBelle’s Barber Shop, 83 Brewery, Handel’s, Pita Pit and Starbucks.

Rev. Tim Graves served Albany’s First Christian Church from 2017 until 2022. He retired in 2023. The weekly "Interfaith Voices" column includes a regular rotation of writers representing the ...

The decades-old liturgy dispute over rubrics of Mass in the India-based Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church turned violent in a church when parishioners pushed a priest off the altar amid clashes. Father ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not apply if he is sick or even unconscious. And there are no ...

A swashbuckling minister who crusaded against drug deaths is at the centre of an unholy row in the Church of Scotland. The kirk is accused of trying to force Brian Casey out of a job during a ...