All U.S.-based Jesuit provinces are releasing the names of clerics they say are credibly accused of child sex abuse. RNS illustration by Kit Doyle
Need to know: Tuesday, December 18, 2018
US Jesuit groups release names of priests accused of abuse
Advocates for the abused praised the move toward transparency but called it 'long overdue and prompted only by pressure from prosecutors, parishioners and the public.'
Interfaith service blesses Oklahoma Democrat Kendra Horn for her new role in Congress
A diverse group of religious leaders blessed Kendra Horn, a newly elected U.S. representative, as she prepares to take office. Horn, an Episcopalian, is the first Democratic woman elected to Congress from Oklahoma.
Nashville secular group celebrates faith-free Christmas
At the 'Heathen Holidays,' Nashville's Sunday Assembly celebrates the joy of the holidays without God.
Brazilian president’s win leaves him in debt to evangelical bloc
Posing as a political savior for the Christian right, Jair Bolsonaro now has to live up to high expectations.
How can Christians support Donald Trump?
One answer to the question 'Why do evangelicals support Trump?' is that they don't, or at least not all of them, writes Diane Winston.
In locked compound, minorities in China make clothes for US
There's a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries.
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At Wheaton summit, prominent evangelicals share stories of sexual abuse
Popular Bible teacher Beth Moore was one of many speakers who revealed they, too, were survivors of sexual abuse and harassment at a one-day evangelical gathering.
Why ‘Silent Night’ and the stories around it endure 200 years later
For countless churchgoers, 'Silent Night' brings a moment of quiet reflection that captures what Christmas is all about — even if church mice have nothing to do with it.
With tears, megachurch pastor defends $200K Lamborghini gift to wife
John Gray, pastor of Relentless Church, led his wife to a bow-wrapped car and handed her the keys while saying "Lamborghini Urus."
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New Mormon policies meet the reality of a contracting church
As policies go, there’s a lot to like about these recent ones, which acknowledge the realities of declining growth and the needs of smaller wards.
The moral inadequacy of carbon taxes
Indirect market-based solutions are incompatible with moral imperatives.
First Step Act recognizes that prisoners, too, are made in God’s image
The current rules and treatment of prisoners in the federal justice system are an affront to the dignity of men and women made in the image of God, writes Heather Rice-Minus.
