(RNS) — In late March of this year, the Vatican formally — and somewhat surprisingly — repudiated the centuries-old “Doctrine of Discovery,” based on papal dictates of the 15th century that justified ...
The Evangelical Covenant Church became the latest Protestant denomination in the United States to repudiate the doctrine of discovery, the theological justification that allowed the discovery and ...
After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123-53, ...
After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123-53, ...
U.S. bishops attend Mass on Nov. 14, 2022, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore at the start of their 2022 fall plenary assembly. (OSV ...
Of the 12 federal holidays, Columbus Day is one of only three celebrating a person. Among that trinity, which includes the celebrations of the births of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr., ...
As an avid TED Talk fan, I delight in the insights so many of its talks offer. One that stopped me in my tracks was a comment of American mathematician, Cathy O’Neill. She was discussing the ...
The Bahá’í Faith teaches that its core spiritual principles, revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, are divinely ordained for this age and do not require modernization to align with contemporary or shifting social ...
Editor’s note: These letters are responding to a story in The Tennessean about a "Faith and State" panel on Jan. 10 at the Tennessee State Capitol featuring ministers and government officials ...