This Christmas, US churches are preparing for a frenzy of festivity
RNS A few hours after the Washington National Cathedral posted on Facebook on 29th November that admission to its Christmas family service and Advent concerts this year would require a $US7 ticket, the cathedral backed down in the face of the ire of its own parishioners and apologised for its decision. In a statement on […]
Detectives treating Los Angeles bishop’s death as homicide
Los Angeles, US AP A Roman Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church, a slaying of a longtime priest hailed as a “peacemaker” that’s stunned the Los Angeles religious community, authorities said. Detectives are investigating the death of Bishop David O’Connell as a homicide, according to the […]
Cyntoia Brown-Long to speak at anti-abortion rally held by Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USRNS To Cyntoia Brown-Long, it’s not just the unborn who need protection and respect, but also the marginalised and forgotten. Since her much-publicized release in August from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man who solicited her for sex at 16, Brown-Long has […]