Religion

These are daunting times for U.S. clergy of many faiths as the age-old challenges of their ministries are compounded by newly evolving stresses.

The 156 young men who call St. Charles Borromeo Seminary home are deeply aware of both the sacred and the profane.

One Jewish community in Philadelphia tries to keep its young people rooted in their identity with a modern spin on a bar/bat mitzvah tradition.

The seminarians walk along a hallway lined with photos of classes of priests who came before them.

They’re adding new plaintiffs from the Philadelphia, Altoona-Johnstown, Greensburg and Harrisburg dioceses.

The region’s bishop says she just wants the 100k-person congregation to stay together.

For the first time in its 145-year history, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will have a Hispanic leader.

A PA Post review of county jails' commissaries finds that Muslim prisoners meet financial barriers to practicing their religion.

The streets of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood are usually busy with Hasidic families coming and going.

The United Methodist Church announced a proposal to split the denomination over what it called "fundamental differences" regarding same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry.

Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake of a landmark grand jury report on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

The rector says experts must first remove scaffolding that was on the cathedral before the fire, because the scaffolding is threatening the vaults.

The Supreme Court member connected her strives for justice to religious tradition.

A majority of Americans believe religion should be involved in society but not in politics. This hour, we discuss the intersection between religion and politics.