In 1811, a New York man went to prison for insulting Jesus Christ, and the state's chief justice declared that Americans "profess the general doctrines of Christianity." That wasn't a fringe ruling. It was the law, and it stayed that way in various states for more than a century.
There was a time when being caught celebrating something wicked made people turn red with embarrassment That shame worked as a kind of social restraint So what happens...
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In the city of Lourdes, the pope met individually seven victims of sexual abuse — four men and three women selected by the Bishops' Conference of France —...
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Christians in Nigeria were killed at a rate of one every 86 minutes between Jan 1 and Sept 8, most of them in a region that receives low...
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Events from this week in Christian history include Damasus becoming pope, Charles Finney contracting cholera, and the dedication of the Lux Mundi statue
Read morePreaching to the infirmed, disabled and those who care for them at one of Catholicism's most iconic shrines, Pope Leo XIV said that "no human law should ever...
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