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When Ash Wednesday Falls on Valentine’s Day, Love and Death Compete

What to do when Ash Wednesday, a solemn reminder of human mortality, falls on the same day we gorge on chocolate and romance? Pass out...

Sex Abuse Case Ends Against Former Cardinal

Theodore McCarrick was the highest-ranking cleric in the nation to face criminal charges in the Catholic church’s sprawling abuse scandal.

The United Methodist Church Comes Apart

A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies.

The Pope Has Critics Among Leaders and Laypeople in the American Church

Pockets of conservative Catholics exist at all levels, and they see the pope’s decision to punish an outspoken cardinal as another move against them.

American Bishops Navigate Divisions

The meeting opened with a call for unity, but clerics are navigating a contentious relationship between Pope Francis and conservative American Catholics.

Southern Baptists Furious Over Church’s Stand in a Sex Abuse Case

A brief filed in a Kentucky case has infuriated members of the denomination across the country, just as it grapples with an abuse scandal.

Why Conservative Christians Are So Excited About New House Speaker Mike Johnson

The new speaker of the House is a Southern Baptist who embodies evangelical beliefs and priorities, with a long history of work against abortion and...

Five Years After Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack, Recovery Mixes With Fresh Grief

The Tree of Life community was “universally embraced” after an antisemitic shooting. But with Israel engaged in war, some now feel alone.

A Texas Bishop Takes On Pope Francis and the Vatican

Bishop Joseph Strickland, a hero to the emboldened traditionalist wing of American Catholicism, is in open warfare with the Vatican as it hosts a landmark...

Baltimore Archdiocese Files for Bankruptcy

The nation’s oldest Catholic archdiocese made the move days before a new law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on lawsuits from abuse...
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