Stopping just short of abandoning a historic barrier to religion in government activity, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday that local governments may open their meetings with prayers that ...

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily given Jan. 25, 2026, the feast of the conversion of St. Paul the ...

(RNS) — Claiming to defend a constitutional right under attack, the Trump administration's announcement on school prayer neither identified the threat nor bolstered students' well-established freedom ...

This year's Blessing of the Fleet in Pass Christian started out a little differently for Father Christopher Colby. Instead of blessing by water, he was blessing on shore because he missed the blessing ...

Shortly after Pope Francis visited the United States in September, many churches invoked his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, in services of blessing animals. From the spectacular event at the ...

I couldn’t have explained it while it was happening, but there have been moments in my life when I quickly and intimately ...

A Baptist minister, a Presbyterian pastor and a Jewish cantor held burning incense as they walked quietly through the empty, white-walled clinic. They blessed the exam tables and their stirrups, the ...

PASS CHRISTIAN, MS (WLOX) - There was a lot more going on at this year's Blessing of Fleet in Pass Christian. The annual event is to ask God for a safe shrimping season and to honor fishermen who lost ...

Dalhart Independent School District’s school board voted against implementing Senate Bill 11, which would establish a daily ...