When Pope Francis opens the holy doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday, he will be performing a ritual that has been part of the Catholic Church since the 1500s.
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Part of growing up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is serving on a mission after high school. Whether they serve overseas or elsewhere in the United States, those who have answered the call find it an illuminating experience.
It’s either the most simple or the most complex question imaginable, and one that has tantalized religious leaders, philosophers and average, everyday mortals ever since we, as a species, first realized that none of us will be here forever.
St. Paul’s Charismatic Episcopal Church had become too comfortable in its ways. “We came on Sundays, we worshipped the Lord, and then the biggest question was, ‘Where are we going to go for lunch?’” the Rev. Chris Moran recalls. Unexpectedly forced out of its home, the church found both a new building and a new outlook.
A victim of child sexual abuse by clergy criticized Pope Francis on Saturday for appearing to endorse parents who spanked their children.
“They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.
A popular satirical musical about Mormon missionaries will play next year in Salt Lake City, just down the street from the worldwide headquarters of the faith it’s mocking.
They know their history; it’s gospel to them.
They drop names like Thomas Dorsey, the father of black gospel, or Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the first to combine church hymns with rock and roll — long before Elvis Presley swiveled on scene.
When she was growing up, Bailey Braner’s family kept Jewish traditions and observed Jewish holidays. But Jewish upbringing notwithstanding, Braner doesn’t remember learning much about the Holocaust as a child.