Religion News Service

After years of criticism, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe has released the names of 74 priests and religious leaders who were accused or later found guilty of sexually abusing children.

American Catholic: Over its 2,000-year history, the Catholic liturgy has constantly changed in response to new situations and cultures. Like software, it must continue to be updated and adjusted to the people and cultures of today. 

Thousands of Christians and Muslims came together to celebrate the consecration of Kosovo's first Roman Catholic cathedral in the name of St. Teresa of Calcutta.

Nashville, Tenn. -- Paula White, President Trump's most prominent spiritual adviser, told a crowd of journalists at the Religion News Association's annual conference that she is certain President Trump is not a racist and that he "understands ... repentance."

America Catholic: I am looking forward to the annual Religion News Association meeting in Nashville. I enjoy the company of religion journalists, but I know many old friends won't be there.

The future of religion in America is young, non-Christian and technicolor.

Evangelical leaders who have met with Trump administration officials say they talk about a range of policy issues when they visit the White House.

Here’s a list of some of the key evangelical leaders — mostly men but also one woman — who were on President Donald Trump’s campaign evangelical executive advisory board and/or have served in an advisory role since his inauguration.

After being elected president with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, Trump retains unprecedented ties with a group of conservative Christian religious leaders.

The theological differences that led to the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago have dwindled since in both the United States and Western Europe.

American Catholic: "Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don’t actually have a faith system that they believe in, but in their activity, in the way they conduct themselves, there is a goodness there.”

Nigerian clergy say at least 1,000 churches have been destroyed in the six-year insurgency, which the government declared crushed last year.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer attended an audience with Pope Francis Sunday as part of an annual meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network.

Opponents of Trump significantly outnumber his supporters, and calls from Jews to other Jews to renounce the president have heightened tensions in synagogues, in the Jewish press and the wider Jewish world.

American Catholic: Steven Banon's ouster may have been a victory for a more inclusive America, but in the internal politics of the Republican Party it also signals the triumph of the corporate and interventionist wings of the party, which should scare the religious left. 

More comes to light. A journalist's inquiry to his diocese, not images from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville spurred a Virginia priest to confess he'd been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

American Catholic: The relationship between President Trump and the Catholic bishops has been more a marriage of convenience than a love affair. But already there have been some public spats.

Over the weekend, the battle over monuments to controversial figures extended to California, where a statue of a Catholic saint, Fr. Junipero Serra, was vandalized in Los Angeles.

Organizers of the March for Racial Justice, slated for the National Mall in late September, have apologized for scheduling the event on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews.

More than 4,000 religious leaders have signed a letter urging Congress to maintain the Johnson Amendment, a law barring pulpit politicking that President Trump has vowed to gut.