The Archdiocese of Newark has released a policy for planning the funerals of priests who have been removed from ministry on sexual abuse accusations. The...
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c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) With the release of the movie “Noah” a couple of weeks away, the waters of controversy are already rising fast...
c. 2014 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) In recent years, Hollywood has made a concerted effort to lure religious audiences to the local cineplex with such...
The war on drugs has been an ongoing topic of discussion for decades. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world—nearly 751 per 100,000...
We are now six days away from the first day of Spring. So here’s hoping that soon we won’t be tromping through ice and snow but will instead be brushing pollen...
Archbishop John Myers is living proof that the old adage “all press is good press” doesn’t always hold true. The head of the Archdiocese of...
It hardly seems like a year ago that the world met Pope Francis for the first time–maybe that’s because there’s seemingly been more media...
For many of us, poverty is largely an abstract concept. We relate to it in terms of dollars or percentages. (For example, 40 percent of people living in the...
Let’s hear it for the intrepid staff at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, N.J., who have not only embarked on a bold multimedia fundraising...
When I took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), back in *undisclosed date here,* it was all about the bubble sheets. There was no writing section. There was...
