"Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not receive an audience this morning," said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, without giving more details. It was unclear who the pope had been expected to meet with, as his agenda was not made public on Friday, as is customary.

Missouri legislators have adopted yet another solution in search of a problem. They’ve passed a bill — and sent it to Gov. Mike Parson to sign (he shouldn’t) — that would allow public schools to offer elective courses on the Bible.

Speaking before a welcoming crowd of national evangelical broadcasters one Tuesday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis declared Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the "gold standard for jurisprudence" and the next president could have the opportunity to create a 7-2 conservative majority...

MIAMI – Elie Floradin, 59, the self-described head pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for participating in a fraudulent scheme seeking more than $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

CatholicVote, a right-wing non-profit that labels itself as the "top Catholic advocacy organization" in the United States, received a drubbing on social media this weekend over a comment that it posted about a CNN article.

A Christian university in upstate New York is coming under fire from some of its own alumni after firing two employees who refused to stop putting their gender pronouns in their work emails.

Voters in West Texas have decisively rejected three conservative Christian candidates who campaigned on infusing religious values into local decision-making. But the support the candidates received from local churches during the race has prompted calls for state and federal investigations and triggered a local political reckoning.

In just a handful of years, members of a Canton, Ohio, family built a financial empire that included a boutique airline, a bank in the Missouri Ozarks, a chain of carpet stores, a marijuana farm in Oregon, and more than $20 million in real estate.

Republicans in the state of Michigan are taking heat for pushing a bill that Democratic critics liken to "religious indoctrination." The Detroit News reports that new legislation being pushed by Republican State Rep. Joseph Fox would mandate that schools teach about the "Christian foundations" ...

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature has passed a bill to allow public schools to replace professional counselors with uncertified religious chaplains. 

A Baltimore Catholic monk accused of sexually abusing children was named only as "No. 153" in a Maryland attorney general’s report on child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore and had been allowed to keep teaching after the allegations were made, a local newspaper discovered.

A closely-watched and controversial piece of legislation in Texas that would have required public schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom failed to pass on Tuesday night, The Daily Beast reported. 

Over a period of about seven decades, the Catholic Church in Illinois has allowed more than 450 credibly accused child sex abusers to have access to parishioners, The New York Times reported. The figure is more than four times that which the church had publicly disclosed before 2018...

A report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found 16% of Americans say religion is the most important thing in their lives.

“And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me." Malachi 2:1-2 (NIV)

A celebrity megachurch with a global reach accused of sexual abuse is the subject of a four-part FX docuseries “The Secrets of Hillsong,” Jezebel reports.Carl Lentz, the Hillsong Church’s “rockstar pastor” who was removed from his leadership role in 2020 over allegations of “breaches of trust”...

Let those who are experts at cursing— whose cursing could rouse Leviathan— curse that day. Job 3:8 (NLT)

A massive statue of a bull's head in South Dakota was apparently mistaken for Satanic imagery by vandals who painted “Satan is defeated” and “Jesus is King" on the base.