The Pope Summoned Bishops for an Unprecedented Global Meeting on the Sex Abuse Scandal
Franco Origlia/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pope Francis announced Wednesday that he would convene a global meetings of bishops next year to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis that has engulfed the Catholic Church and strengthened the partisan divide between bishops loyal to Francis and his conservative critics. The…
The Militant Wing of the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Back—And It’s Never Been Closer to Victory
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brian StaufferBefore marching into the women’s health clinic in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on a freezing day last December, Monica Migliorino Miller and her compatriots paused to ask God to soften the hearts of the women inside to be open to their message. When Miller…
An Imam Was Gunned Down in New York City. His Wife Says It Was a Hate Crime.
A member of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque stands near a police sketch of a suspect believed to have shot the mosque’s Imam, at the end of an evening prayer service at the mosque in the Ozone Park section of Queens, New York.Craig Ruttle/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This…
The #ChurchToo Movement Just Scored a Major Victory for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor Bill Hybels stands before his congregation, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, where he announced his early retirement effective immediately, amid a cloud of misconduct allegations.Mark Black/Daily Herald via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, in what is the most significant response to…
Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…
How Are You Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Ruling?
People gather in front of the Supreme Court to protest its ruling on the travel ban. Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court upheld the Trump’s administration’s travel ban Tuesday morning, ruling in a 5-4 decision that the president has the authority to issue the order. About…