Since the early days of Christianity, the idea of a “domestic church” has been common. Pope St. John Paul II, in his 1994 Letter to Families, spoke of it. “The Fathers of the Church,” he wrote, “in ...

DECADE IN REVIEW: Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have provided the Church with guiding documents on the Latin liturgy in the last 10 years. Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila celebrates Mass at SLS20 in ...

NEW YORK — The crowd in front of Hunter College on a rainy Monday evening in June is intentionally old-school. About a dozen young men, most with short, gelled hair, stand in a circle chatting.

America’s youth are leaving churches in droves. One in four young adults choose “unaffiliated” when asked about their religion, according to a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute poll, and 55 ...

(RNS) — Speaking to a group of Jesuits in Quebec, the pope held up the Canadian bishops as an example of what the church can achieve when working as one. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On the last day of his ...

Dan Kimball: The churches I know that are winning new believers and drawing people who did not grow up in the church are not using too many liturgical elements. I think we might be seeing people who ...

At a time when many Christian communities seek to make diversity a crucial aspect of ecclesial unity, belonging, and participation, Rebecca F. Spurrier makes a poignant contribution. Rooted in her ...

(UNDATED) Almost unnoticed amid its clamorous debate over human sexuality, the Episcopal Church has directed an internal committee to address “anti-Jewish prejudice” in Christian Scriptures and ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – As the trees go bare in the autumn, in many churches, the color scheme changes from green to purple. The colors used by Christian denominations that incorporate formal liturgical ...

Deputies to the Episcopal General Convention watch a screen as the Very Rev. David Thurlow of South Carolina addresses the convention in Indianapolis July 10. The convention approved a rite of ...

How a retired Anglican priest and a young church music director created Liturgical Folk. In 2015, when retired Anglican priest Nelson Koscheski shared one of his religious poems with the young music ...

Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (CATS) will present the world premiere staged reading of AFTERMATH LITURGY, a commissioned ...