U.S. Navy
The Navy needs more chaplains
By Gregory N. Todd — May 15, 2023
(RNS) — All three sea services want and need more chaplains — but the recruiting deficit is extreme.
Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers
By Jessica Gresko — March 29, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last year made vaccinations mandatory for service members.
After pushback, US Navy agrees to retain contracts with civilian Catholic priests at California naval bases
By Alejandra Molina — September 9, 2020
(RNS) — This announcement came days after a Sept. 5 report by The San Diego Union-Tribune that Catholic Masses at San Diego Navy bases had ended because the Navy, as part of a cost cutting move, declined to renew contracts with Catholic priests.
Navy faces suit over denying humanist chaplain
By Adelle M. Banks — November 6, 2014
(RNS) The suit charges that the Navy inconsistently requires accommodation of religious practices for sailors while not permitting a humanist chaplain because “the Navy does not consider Humanism to be a religion.”
The Bibles are back: Navy lodges scuttle removal plan
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 15, 2014
(RNS) An atheist group prompted the ouster but public outcry led the brass to reverse course Friday (Aug. 15).
Bibles booted from U.S. Navy base guest rooms
By Lauren Markoe — August 12, 2014
(RNS) The Navy's decision came after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter questioning the constitutionality of religious literature in the Navy lodges' 3,000 guest rooms.
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