The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will not remove conscience protections for members who oppose same-sex marriage, ...

A grant from Pennsylvania's new downtown revitalization program will go towards redeveloping Zion Lutheran Church in downtown York, which has been vacant for three decades. Earlier this month ...

but of unifying a fractured American church where the church hierarchy, ordinary Catholics, an influential right-wing Catholic media ecosystem and Catholic power in Washington are often at odds.

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, dies at 88 Watch: 'Avatar 3: Fire And Ash' Official ...

Ruth Graham, a reporter covering religion, faith and values for The New York Times, describes how his papacy galvanized a tide of conservative resistance in the American church hierarchy ...

Do not enable an institution that treats survivors as liabilities. The only language the Church hierarchy understands is money. Until it stops protecting itself at the expense of victims ...

The Papuans felt abandoned as the local Church hierarchy, based in the Indonesian capital, consistently aligned with the government. "The official stance of the Catholic Church on the Papua issue is ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Firefighters worked to contain a blaze that collapsed a roof at a Cabell County church Friday afternoon. A fire at the Beverly Hills Church of Christ, located along ...

Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic church is eligible to serve as pope. The conclave is highly secretive, and the candidates do not publicly campaign for the position. The pope is the leader ...

Listen SÃO PAULO – Pope Francis’s death heavily impacted old-timer Liberation theologians, people who on several occasions had to struggle with the Church structure to make their voices be ...

This raised concerns within the Church hierarchy and among western governments during the cold war. As a young Jesuit in Argentina, Bergoglio was influenced by the 1969 Declaration of San Miguel.

Power and authority: It explores the development of Church hierarchy, especially the centralization of papal authority. The author outlines how this power structure has been both a unifying force ...