Commentary: Transgender and intersex persons are not sinners, but they are lost sheep in the wilderness of the church, which continues to affirm only the female-male binary to which it attaches unchangeable gender.
Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis said Aug. 23 he has invited Missouri's attorney general to conduct a review of the archdiocese with regard to clergy sexual abuse.
St. Louis - At St. Alphonsus Liguori "Rock" Church, leaders of men's religious orders listened to and talked with activists for racial justice during "a very transformational time."
A Saginaw, Michigan, diocesan priest, previously cleared of accusations of sexual abuse of a minor, has been caught in a police sting operation and charged with criminal sexual misconduct.
The apology was part of a settlement between SNAP and Fr. Joseph Jiang, who had sued the group and the parents of a boy who accused him of sexual abuse, charges that were dropped.
Story updated: Archbishop Robert Carlson led an interfaith prayer service Sept. 19 in St. Louis, a city on edge from the acquittal of a white police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a black man in 2011.
