Faith - The Journal

Can Pope Francis bridge the climate divide?

Catholics in the West are responding to his call. Will Congress?

DATE: Oct 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Mormons select three leaders from Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church didn’t go far to select three new members for a top governing body that sets policy and runs the worldwide faith’s business operations – choosing two forme...

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Thoughts Along the Way: A shared Song

I wonder how many of us have ever said, “I can’t sing.” Not – “I can’t sing like (name your favorite singer).” We just flat out deny our ability, when in fact we all can sing. Som...

DATE: Sep 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Pope charts a new direction in U.S.

Francis asks for a church with warmth of a ‘family fire’

DATE: Sep 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

St. Margaret Mary’s hosts western-style ordination

Native of Mexico becomes priest on anniversary of Theatine Order

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Guest Columnist The meaning of true Christianity

If someone were to ask if you are a Christian, how would you respond? If you would say you are a Christian, what makes you believe that to be true? Is it because you go to church,...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Cortez hosting Catholic ordination on Sept. 14

Deacon Francisco Javier Diaz Moreno will be ordained a Theatine Catholic priest at St. Margaret Mary’s Church on Montezuma Avenue at 5 p.m. on Sept. 14 by Bishop Emeritus, Arthur Tafoya, of ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Cowboy ministry returns to Mancos

Cowarts served from 1994 to 1999

DATE: Aug 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Utah group to start Boy Scout troop with gay leaders

SALT LAKE CITY – Days after the Boy Scouts of America lifted a blanket ban on gay leaders, a Utah group that pressed for the legalization of gay marriage in the state announced Tuesday it wi...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

Severe crackdown in China on church crosses draws backlash

LOWER DAFEI VILLAGE, China — About a dozen Catholics wept and sang hymns outside their church as a man climbed to the top of the building and sliced off its steel cross with a cutting torch....

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

British university says Quran parchment among oldest

LONDON — A British university disclosed Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of t...

DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Faith

World mayors urge ‘bold climate agreement’

VATICAN CITY – Mayors from around the world declared Tuesday that climate change is real, man-made and must be stopped as a matter of moral imperative, gathering at the Vatican to announce n...