Tag: Christianity
Lutherans elect Megan Rohrer first transgender bishop
(RNS) — The Rev. Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday (May 8), becoming...
Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals
The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to...
Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals
The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to...
Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals
The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to...
Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals
The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to...
German Catholics to bless gay unions despite Vatican ban
BERLIN — Germany's powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings...
Judge slain in Sicily by mafiosi put on path to sainthood
ROME — A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church on Sunday...
Judge slain in Sicily by mafiosi put on path to sainthood
ROME — A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church on Sunday...
Ethiopian Orthodox Church patriarch blasts Tigray ‘genocide’
NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is...
For some pastors, the past year was too much to bear
(RNS) — Jeff Weddle, a 46-year-old, wise-cracking, self-deprecating, Bible-loving, self-described “failing pastor” from Wisconsin, was already thinking of leaving the ministry before COVID and...
