Scholar and author Anthea Butler says it’s impossible to tell the history of American evangelicalism without acknowledging how racism helped shape its theology, institutions and culture. The U.S. Catholic Church shares this history, she adds.

POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and