Religion - The Durango Herald

‘Dreamer’ priest faces deportation – and a divided congregation

ATLANTA – As he hands each person the Communion wafer, the priest watches his congregants walk back to their seats. They drop to their knees and bow their heads. Hands clasp. Around the chur...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Durango Dharma Center to hold insight meditation series

A five-class beginning insight meditation series will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Feb. 27, at Durango Dharma Center, 1800 East Third Ave. Insight meditation is ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

German bishops reject pope suggestion to tweak Lord’s Prayer

BERLIN – Roman Catholic bishops in Germany say they’ve debated Pope Francis’ suggestion to tweak the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, but will leave it unchanged. France recently...

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Priest tends to miners, sex workers deep in Peru’s Amazon

BOCA COLORADO, Peru – Below an umbrella of trees deep in the Peruvian Amazon, drunken miners carry on their shoulders the casket of a man whose search for gold ended with a bullet in his sto...

DATE: Jan 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope apologizes to abuse victims, but defends Chilean bishop

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis apologized for insisting that victims of pedophile priests show “proof” to be believed, saying he realized it was a “slap in the face” to victims that h...

DATE: Jan 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Trump immigration remarks intensify evangelical rift

NEW YORK – Donald Trump’s vulgar remarks questioning why the U.S. should admit immigrants from Haiti and Africa have spotlighted the bitter divide among American evangelicals about his presi...

DATE: Jan 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope to indigenous: Amazon is ‘heart of the church’

PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru – From deep in the scorching Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God’s “hol...

DATE: Jan 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope Francis just performed a historic wedding aboard the papal plane

Pope Francis just performed a wedding aboard the papal plane, a historic and unplanned moment near the end of his trip to Chile. The midair ceremony Thursday for the two LATAM Air...

DATE: Jan 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

A pastor lights into President Trump – with Vice President Pence sitting in the front pew

Like many people, the Rev. Maurice Watson issued a stern and very public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s Oval Office comments about immigrants from “s**thole countries.” But Wa...

DATE: Jan 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope meets with abuse survivors, weeps with them in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile – Pope Francis met on Tuesday with survivors of priests who sexually abused them, wept with them and apologized for the “irreparable damage” they suffered, his spokesman said...

DATE: Jan 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Mormon leadership hierarchy is made up only of men

SALT LAKE CITY – The selection of a new Mormon president fills a void atop a well-defined leadership hierarchy that has governed the church for decades. A closer look at how the l...

DATE: Jan 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Mormon church appoints 93-year-old ex-surgeon as president

SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church appointed a 93-year-old former heart surgeon Tuesday as its new president, following a longstanding succession plan that aims to keep the faith on course w...

DATE: Jan 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion