FAYETTE, AR — A real estate broker says an organization denied her the opportunity to purchase land in an Arkansas development because of her Jewish ancestry, and because she has a Black husband and biracial children, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court. The lawsuit, ...

I listen to or watch the news after dinner. Often, it makes me upset to see so much suffering and so much violence that has no meaning or a clear reason for the hurt it causes. Currently, we are plagued with rampages of anger and behavior that hurt or kill ordinary citizens and innocent souls ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — Ruthie Browning dove into the calm, blue water off Key West, Florida, expecting to see “a big, old rock with stuff growing all over it.” She was on a pilgrimage with other Black divers and community members, visiting sacred sites including one where a British slave ship ...

ROME (AP) — With Pope Leo XIV’s first big crisis looming, the Vatican Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that their planned consecration of bishops without papal consent constitutes a schismatic act that incurs automatic excommunication. Leo ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV surprised 13 priests from southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, by joining a video call from Rome on Wednesday, telling them they were in his prayers and that he hoped peace would soon prevail along the tense frontier. The Lebanese Catholic and Maronite ...

As we wait for summer, or at least warmer days, I see a real desire for greenery and flowers. The other day, as I was checking out of the grocery store, a woman had bought plants. I do not know whether she realized we may still have frost. I have in the past been gifted. I received several ...