VATICAN CITY (RNS) —Rumors have crashed into the pre-conclave meetings, potentially upsetting a frontrunner for the next pope. The Italian daily Il Tempo published an article on Thursday (May 1), reporting papabile favorite Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state under...
(RNS) — Two years ago, Pope Francis denounced what he called “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” within the American Catholic church. To his successor, and anyone who wants to understand how this attitude has shaped the church, I recommend...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Minutes before the funeral for Pope Francis began outside in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday (April 26), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump sat leaning toward each other on solitary chairs in the...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a solemn procession on Wednesday morning (April 23), two long columns of cardinals and Vatican officials escorted Pope Francis’ body from the Domus Sancta Marta, the residence where he died, to St. Peter’s Basilica, where...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans. Francis, who is recovering from a...
EULESS, Texas (RNS) — Vladimir Grygorenko’s work as an iconographer has taken him to high places, literally and spiritually. Specifically, for the past four months, he’s spent long hours 65 feet above the altar in St. John the Baptist Greek...
(RNS) — This is the question that begins the Passover seder: “Why is this night different from all other nights?” Oh, it was different alright. The matzah crumbs were still on the dining room table, and the wine-stained Haggadot were...
(RNS) — The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper. In the drawing, by Adam Sacks, Jesus, sitting at what we take to be the Last Supper, says...
NEW YORK (RNS) — A 17th-century letter considered the blueprint for religious freedom in the U.S. was displayed for the first time in seven years at the New York Public Library on Tuesday (April 8). The Flushing Remonstrance, signed by...
(RNS) — When Sasha Allen, a trans singer, sat down to write his first release after going independent, he thought he was going to write an “eff-off” song. But the song he ended up writing, with its reflections on religious...
