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Pope Francis waves to the crowd Saturday as he arrives to celebrate a Mass at the Kosevo stadium, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pope urges Bosnians to put fratricidal past behind them

Pope Francis waves to the crowd Saturday as he arrives to celebrate a Mass at the Kosevo stadium, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

June 6, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Pope Francis witnessed the horrors of Bosnia's fratricidal war of the 1990s and its slow process of healing Saturday during a one-day visit to Sarajevo, where he urged Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put the "barbarity" of the past behind them and work together for a peaceful… Read story

Religion calendar

June 6, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

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This is the family of Bernhardt Hepps, circa 1898. Back row: Abraham C.; Middle row: Berthe and Bernhardt; Front row: Olga, Hazel, and Jacob (Chick).

Woman uncovers Pa. town’s Jewish history

This is the family of Bernhardt Hepps, circa 1898. Back row: Abraham C.; Middle row: Berthe and Bernhardt; Front row: Olga, Hazel, and Jacob (Chick).

June 6, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

PITTSBURGH — Jewish history is absent from the dominant industrial narrative of the town of Homestead, Pa., a few miles southeast of Pittsburgh. For a young woman hoping to uncover it, 16 boxes of records at the Heinz History Center changed the course of her life. Read story

St. Paul, Minn., archdiocese charged over handling of abuse claims

June 5, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Authorities in Minnesota are filing criminal charges against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis over its handling of clergy sex abuse claims. Read story

Corpus Christi procession set for Sunday in downtown

June 5, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

Parishioners of the Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater will hold a downtown procession Sunday in honor of the Feast of Corpus Christi. Read story

L. Tom Perry, the second-most senior member of the high-level Mormon governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks March 4 during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Mormon church officials say Perry, one of the highest-ranking leaders of the faith, is headed to hospice as his cancer spreads aggressively.

Top-ranking Mormon leader L. Tom Perry dies from cancer

L. Tom Perry, the second-most senior member of the high-level Mormon governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks March 4 during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Mormon church officials say Perry, one of the highest-ranking leaders of the faith, is headed to hospice as his cancer spreads aggressively.

May 30, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon leader L. Tom Perry, a member of the faith's highest governing body, has died from cancer. He was 92. Read story

Associated Press files Brother Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican's Observatory, right, shows to visitors the Globe of planet Mars from the collection of the Specola Vaticana during an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of demonstration of Galileo's telescope April 15 on the Gianicolo hill, at Rome's American Academy in Rome.

Catholics’ relationship with science evolving

Associated Press files Brother Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican's Observatory, right, shows to visitors the Globe of planet Mars from the collection of the Specola Vaticana during an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of demonstration of Galileo's telescope April 15 on the Gianicolo hill, at Rome's American Academy in Rome.

May 30, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

From Galileo to genetics, the Roman Catholic Church has danced with science, sometimes in a high-tension tango but more often in a supportive waltz. Pope Francis is about to introduce a new twist: global warming. Read story

Religion calendar

May 30, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion

A weekly list of religion-related classes and events Read story

L'Osservatore Romano files Pope Francis shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 28 during their meeting at the Vatican. On Tuesday, Ban praised Pope Francis for framing climate change as an urgent moral imperative.

Pope has help on climate change topic

L'Osservatore Romano files Pope Francis shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 28 during their meeting at the Vatican. On Tuesday, Ban praised Pope Francis for framing climate change as an urgent moral imperative.

May 24, 2015, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

NEW YORK -- There will be prayer vigils and pilgrimages, policy briefings and seminars, and sermons in parishes from the U.S. to the Philippines. Read story

Sister Angela Rooney, 98, a Roman Catholic nun, discusses the decision her order made to close its infirmary and send her and other nuns to Jewish Home Lifecare in the Bronx borough of New York.

Aging nuns get care at Jewish nursing home

Sister Angela Rooney, 98, a Roman Catholic nun, discusses the decision her order made to close its infirmary and send her and other nuns to Jewish Home Lifecare in the Bronx borough of New York.

May 24, 2015, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

NEW YORK -- For 98-year-old Sister Angela Rooney, it was one of the most jarring moves of her life. Read story