(RNS) — It all started when Carlos Whittaker received that perky Sunday morning iPhone notification summarizing his time spent on his handheld screen in the past week. Seven hours and twenty-three minutes on average per day. Whittaker, an author and...
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, pro-Palestinian activists protesting the Democratic National Convention and more. The post Photos of the Week: Shiite pilgrims; DNC protests appeared first on Religion News Service. Source link...
(RNS) — You know how people have their happy places? For some people, it’s the corner saloon, the cigar bar or the golf course. Me? It’s a bookstore — especially an independent bookstore. I love them — the books, the...
(The Conversation) — The Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of a rare form of leukemia at age 15, will soon become the Catholic Church’s first “millennial saint.” Acutis was a computer programmer who created virtual exhibitions and...
(RNS) — When the Rev. Carieta Cain-Grizzell reached age 75, she had expected to retire after a lifetime as an African Methodist Episcopal Church member who became a pastor of several of its churches. Instead, the Washington, D.C., native-turned-Californian is...
(RNS) — Arab Americans, Muslim Americans and their interfaith allies spent much of Thursday (Aug. 22) pushing Democratic officials to allow a Palestinian American to speak from the party convention’s main stage, to convey a message of solidarity despite the...
(RNS) — This summer we remember a political tragedy from 50 years ago that many at the time considered the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. What became known as the Watergate scandal began a series of questionable and...
(RNS) — More than a quarter of U.S. Catholic parishes have at least one Spanish Mass and another 17% have a Latino presence or ministry, according to a new survey released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The survey,...
(RNS) — When President Joe Biden finished his speech before the Democratic National Convention on Monday night (Aug. 19), most major television news networks quickly cut to pundit analysis of the man who unexpectedly bowed out of the race for...
(RNS) — The lights are dim, and two robe-clad figures from the early fifth century — Augustine, the saint and early church theologian, and Pelagius, a so-called heretic — are lit by spotlights near center stage. They’re mid-debate when suddenly,...
