WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday from the Pew Research Center.
There is nothing unusual about a photograph of two men embracing at a pride march, surrounded by rainbow flags, banners and New Orleans-style beads.
Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. That probably wasn’t on your predictions list for the second Trump administration. And yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order of love – ordo amoris – in an interview with Sean Hannity have given life to the “dead” language. But do we have a prayer for bona fide grace to come?
Moments after the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LIX, quarterback Jalen Hurts offered a familiar word of testimony: “God is good. He is greater than all of the highs and lows.”
WASHINGTON – “You shouldn’t have to leave your faith at the door of your people’s government, and under President Trump’s leadership, you won’t have to.” That was the money quote as Vice President JD Vance spoke to the fifth annual International Religious Freedom Summit.
New York may not be your idea of a hotbed for holiness. But the quote “when shall I begin to give myself entirely to him, who has given himself unreservedly to me” comes from Father Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who ultimately gave his life in the service of the Lord, ministering to Native Americans in the New World.
The chaplain’s prayer is posted near the chapel of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas, a space shared by patients, their families, visitors, doctors and the whole staff.
(AP) — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome's main prison Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church's once every quarter-century celebration that is expected to bring about 32 million pilgrims to Rome.
BOSTON (AP) — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover eight angels that were hidden under layers of paint for more than a century.
The cloak worn by St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin was made from rough cactus materials from central Mexico, and it should have deteriorated after 15-30 years.