Updated: Gunman shot by police at NYC cathedral Christmas concert
7:45am (ADST), 15th December, 2020New York, USAP A man was fatally shot by police on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral Sunday after he began firing two semiautomatic handguns at the end of a Christmas choral concert, police said. The gunfire began just before 4pm at the Cathedral of Saint John the […]
The Interview: DC’s Wilton Gregory, first African American cardinal, on Joe Biden, race and COVID-19
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, talks to Wilton Gregory, the Archbishop of Washington, after he was made the first African American cardinal in the history of the Catholic Church…
More US churches commit to racism-linked reparations
AP The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder. An Episcopal church erects a plaque noting the building’s creation in New York City in 1810 was made possible by wealth resulting from slavery. And the Minnesota Council of Churches cites a host of injustices, from mid-19th century atrocities […]
Essay: The death penalty is a burden of shame for the United States. It must end
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says capital punishment should be abolished…