(RNS) — The judge said the borough council’s actions ‘discriminated on the ground of religion’ and showed ‘wholesale disregard for the right to freedom of expression.’

(The Conversation) — Prayers for Jews and veneration of the cross are often misunderstood as anti-Semitic or racist.

(RNS) — Millions of American churchgoers have been without access to the Bible in their native language.

(RNS) — Local Catholic groups are invited in a new Vatical document to establish ‘solidarity networks’ to ensure migrants’ dignity ‘in all phases of displacement.’

(RNS) — The family matriarch and celebrated philanthropist was open to all faiths, religious leaders here have said.

MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Two attackers believed to belong to a network that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State blew themselves up outside a Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass.

(RNS) — The judge ruled that there is no ‘reasonable cause’ to believe that Gianluigi Torzi, who was arrested by the Vatican last year, has benefited from criminal conduct.

(RNS) — Francis paid homage to Dante in an apostolic letter, citing the poet’s hope for reform in the church.

(RNS) — Joe Biden will soon be the first Catholic president to nominate an ambassador to the Holy See, something that in earlier days would have been anathema to American Protestants who feared the papacy’s political and religious power.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) —  In its financial budget for 2021, the Vatican announced that the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on Vatican coffers amounts to more than $60 million.

(RNS) — The outpouring of painful reactions demonstrates the limits of Pope Francis’ welcoming gestures toward LGBTQ people and is a stark reminder that my church continues to deny people their full humanity.

(RNS) — Sound acts as a tether for the mind in the same way the breath or a mantra is used in other forms of meditation.

(RNS) — Samia Suluhu Hassan is the second Muslim woman who wears hijab to become president of a country in which Muslims are a minority.

(RNS) — The Air Force’s decision is a victory for the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Europe’s oldest, largest Tibetan monastery and home to more than 60 monks and volunteers.

ROME (AP) — Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley and Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican’s development office, pointed to Francis’ pastoral outreach to gay men and lesbians but repeated the church’s position.