On Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 prisoners
RNS Pope Francis washes the feet of some inmates at the Paliano prison, south of Rome, on 13th April, 2017. PICTURE: Osservatore Romano via Reuters Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 prisoners in a prison outside the Italian capital known for housing Mafia turncoats as part of a Maundy Thursday Lenten ritual that is also […]
Alabama Senate gives US megachurch the right to form its own police force
RNS An Alabama Presbyterian church may soon become the first in the US to form its own police force, invested by the state with the rights of “regular” police. Officials at Briarwood Presbyterian Church, which belongs to the smaller and more conservative of the nation’s two major branches of the denomination, say their church, with 4,100 […]