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Longtime festivalgoers say the final Utah Sundance may also be their last

PARK CITY, Utah — Attendees at this year’s Sundance Film Festival could not stand in line, step onto a shuttle bus or walk into a lounge without hearing one common question: “Will you go to the festival when it moves to Boulder?” Butch Ward has been a Sundance regular since the ...

Go planner — Jan. 30-Feb. 1

Friday, Jan. 30 Juniata Presents continues its season with suspense and intrigue as Aquila Theatre brings Sherlock to life with classic mystery and modern energy in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles” in Rosenberger Auditorium at the Halbritter Center for Performing ...

Cuba’s Santeros offer gifts, ask deities for peace

HAVANA — As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santeria held several ceremonies on Sunday, offering gifts to deities and asking for peace. Several leading ...

Spiritual notes — Weather changes services, event

Make & Bake Pizza will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at Duncansville Evangelical Lutheran Church. This event was rescheduled from last Sunday due to the snow storm. Movie night set “I Can Only Imagine” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at The Well Ministry Center, 605 ...

Pope tells Vatican office to uphold truth, justice, charity

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican’s doctrine office on Thursday to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases, confirming a calibrated approach to dealing with a scandal that has tarnished the Catholic Church’s credibility worldwide. History’s first American pope dedicated only a small part of his speech to abuse in an address to members of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that polices Catholic doctrine but also processes abuse cases worldwide. What Leo didn’t say was almost more significant than what he ...

Despite the history, US church protests remain rare

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case against anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, unusual. The group interrupted a service ...