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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COVINGTON, Ky. — Gargoyles have watched over this small Kentucky city for more than a century from their lofty perches on a cathedral known as “America’s Notre Dame.” A new renovation will ensure they keep their posts for years to come on the meticulously restored facade of the ...
Bishop Mark L. Bartchak has issued the following message in advance of the winter storm predicted in central Pennsylvania this weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a severe winter weather warning for central Pennsylvania. Severe winter weather is expected to occur Saturday, Jan. 25 ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. Last weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again. “It was horrifying and disbelieving to see it again,” Geiger Bonnheim said. “Does history change?” The historic Beth Israel ...
