VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis will make 21 new cardinals on Saturday (Dec. 7), who will join the group of prelates tasked with selecting his successor one day. The new crop of red hats showcases an increasingly diverse church,...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholic Hollywood director D.J. Caruso (“Disturbia”) set out to tell the story of Mary as seen through her own eyes, in a new film available on Netflix Dec. 6. “You may think you know my story,”...
From Tech Visionary to Right-wing Cultural Christian Examining Elon Musk’s “shadow gospel” and how his surprising alliance with conservative Christians is forged through shared enemies and a powerful exchange of influence. From critiques of “wokeness” to ideological battles shaping faith...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A special 9-day Novena for the Conversion of Pope Francis will begin on December 8, 2024, and will run through December 17, 2024 (the birthday of Pope Francis), starting at 8:00 PM EST every night. Download the...
Groundbreaking book examines key philosophical and theological differences between the two religions SAN FRANCISCO — Catholics may be missing out on fruitful interfaith dialogue by failing to engage with Latter-Day Saints, argues Francis Beckwith and Richard Sherlock in the new...
DELHI, India (RNS) — For more than three decades, Mohammed Mehmood, a Muslim, had been hired by Hindu holy men to light their tents during celebrations of Kumbh Mela, a festival that every 12 years draws hundreds of thousands of...
(RNS) — In early November, the Rev. Carolyn Cavaness was already bracing for a big task — preaching the closing sermon at the fall convocation of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. But as...
(RNS) — An atheist writer and critical race theory critic who made his name submitting fake articles for publication in progressive academic journals and later attacking “liberal” evangelicals has a new target: conservative Christian nationalists. James Lindsay, who describes himself...
(RNS) — In 2012, Boz Tchividjian, grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, drove to the Lynchburg, Virginia, airport in his family minivan to pick up Stephen Jones, great-grandson of fundamentalist Bob Jones Sr. The meeting, though planned, was highly improbable....
(RNS) — In 2012, I tried to track down Hal Lindsey. I reached out to his ministry, looking for his contact information. I needed his permission to reprint excerpts from his apocalyptic book “The Late Great Planet Earth” in a...
