San Diego
LGBTQ group condemns Point Loma Nazarene University for theology dean’s dismissal
By Alejandra Molina — April 7, 2023
(RNS) — The university denies charges by Lauren Cazares, founder of Loma LGBTQIA+ Alumni & Allies Coalition, that the dean of the school of theology was terminated for 'anything related to the LGBTQIA+ community.'
Prayer rug design project aims to highlight Islam’s diversity in US and Latin America
By Alejandra Molina — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — Mustafa Dustin Craun wants to create a conversation around family, place and belonging, asking: 'If you could design a prayer rug that reflects the place that you live, what would that look like?'
Clergy sex abuse suits could bankrupt San Diego diocese
By Associated Press — February 13, 2023
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of San Diego, cited 'staggering' legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging priests and others sexually abused children.
In making McElroy a cardinal, Pope Francis elevates a champion for ‘pastoral’ cause
By Jack Jenkins and Alejandra Molina — August 26, 2022
(RNS) — The San Diego cardinal-to-be will be an ally for a pope who has long advocated for the church to change its priorities without changing its teaching.
San Diego Bishop McElroy named by Pope Francis as a cardinal
By David Crary — May 30, 2022
(AP) — McElroy, 68, has been one of a minority of U.S. bishops harshly criticizing the campaign to exclude Catholic politicians who support abortion rights from Communion.
California to delete Mayan, Ifá affirmations from ethnic studies to settle lawsuit
By Alejandra Molina — January 20, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — By deleting the affirmations, state officials say they are affirming their ‘long-standing commitment to ensuring appropriate treatment of religion in a secular public education context.’
Maranatha Chapel to honor pastor Ray Bentley, who died from COVID-19 complications
By Alejandra Molina — January 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘We are all in shock and heartbroken. We find comfort in knowing that he is rejoicing in heaven with his beloved Jesus,’ the San Diego church said in a statement.
Islamic-friendly comic book content finds a growing audience
By Joseph Hammond — December 29, 2021
(RNS) — 'I just knew there would be interests in dynamic storytelling outside of the superheroes, wizards and dragons out there,' said the founder of Fictional Frontiers, an initiative seeking to support Muslim writers and illustrators.
Court temporarily blocks San Diego schools’ vaccine mandate after suit filed by 16-year-old
By Alejandra Molina — November 29, 2021
(RNS) — The Ninth District Court of Appeals on Sunday (Nov. 28) temporarily blocked San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect, one day before students were required to have their first dose.
California man gets life sentence for fatal synagogue attack
By Elliot Spagat — September 30, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old white supremacist was denied a chance to address a courtroom before a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for bursting into a Southern California synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019 with a semiautomatic rifle, killing one worshipper and wounding […]
San Diego lawsuit claims California’s ethnic studies curriculum promotes Aztec gods
By Alejandra Molina — September 7, 2021
(RNS) — ‘The fact that the Aztec religion is not formally organized and is non-Western in its origin does not excuse the constitutional violations,’ said attorney Robert E. Weisenburger.
California Catholic bishop tells priests to decline vaccine exemption requests
By Alejandra Molina — August 13, 2021
(RNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said Catholic social teaching doesn't justify a religious exemption to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bishop George Dallas McKinney, founder of St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ, dies at 88
By Alejandra Molina — March 22, 2021
(RNS) — The son of a sharecropper who was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, founded St. Stephen’s Church of God in Christ in 1962.
After California ruling, some are worshipping indoors, others still think it’s too risky
By Alejandra Molina — February 12, 2021
(RNS) — 'We’re going to hold on until we feel better about it,' said the Rev. Austin Doran, of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Los Angeles County.
Stressed by COVID, online seekers discover Buddhism’s calming practice
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil — November 10, 2020
(RNS) — Buddhist teachings about suffering and the impermanence of all things, many find, have particular relevance in this moment.
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