Maine
Residents of Maine gather to pray and reflect, days after a mass shooting left 18 people dead
By Robert F. Bukaty, Jake Bleiberg, and David Sharp — October 30, 2023
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Investigators are still searching for a motive for the massacre, but have increasingly been focused on Robert Card’s mental health history.
Religious schools shun state funding despite Maine victory
By David Sharp — August 30, 2022
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Only one of the Maine religious high schools that stood to benefit from the most recent Supreme Court ruling on state tuition reimbursements has signed up to participate this fall.
In Maine, center rethinks spiritual leadership for a climate-changed world
By Marika Proctor — July 12, 2022
(RNS) — At The BTS Center, thinking about the spiritual sector's response to climate change is fueled by a common conviction: that the climate crisis is a spiritual crisis.
The church-state divide, never a wall, isn’t about to fall
By Avi Shafran — June 29, 2022
(RNS) — The court long ago made clear the line of separation ‘is a blurred, indistinct, and variable barrier.’
SCOTUS puts government back in the business of funding religious education
By Khyati Y. Joshi — June 23, 2022
(RNS) — This ruling allows taxpayers to be compelled to pay tuition to schools that expressly discriminate.
State funds for students at religious schools? Supreme Court says ‘yes’ in Maine case – but consequences could go beyond
By Charles J. Russo — June 22, 2022
(The Conversation) — Once again, the court has expanded the legal ways that public funds can be used for students at religious institutions.
Maine diocese sued for 1st time since abuse suit barrier end
By Patrick Whittle — June 17, 2022
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Attorneys who represent three people with claims of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and a lay educator filed the complaints seeking monetary damages.
Public funding of religious schools is coming. The first lesson is compromise.
By Thomas Reese — December 14, 2021
(RNS) — What religious schools need more than anything is something like the Pell Grants that are available to low-income college students.
Money, schools and religion: A controversial combo returns to the Supreme Court
By Charles J. Russo — November 30, 2021
(The Conversation) — Carson v. Makin, a case from Maine about aid to students attending religious schools, goes to the Supreme Court on Dec. 8, 2021.
Maine faith leaders sign letter calling on Sen. Susan Collins to back For the People Act
By Jack Jenkins — August 10, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine (RNS) — The effort adds to mounting religious pressure on lawmakers to pass the sweeping voting rights bill.
Court declines to hear church’s attack on COVID restrictions
By Associated Press — August 3, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a lawsuit by a Maine church that sought to take a preemptive strike against future COVID-19 restrictions.
Catholic diocese quits Maine Council of Churches
By Mark A. Kellner — May 31, 2018
(RNS) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine, is withdrawing from the Maine Council of Churches in a bid to distance itself from LGBT advocacy and other stances that the church says could compromise its public moral witness.
Northeast cities rate most secular
By Adelle M. Banks — July 13, 2017
(RNS) — Barna President David Kinnaman called the research a 'more holistic look at the level of secularization of a particular market or city.'
Mississippi still rules the religiosity rankings
By Lauren Markoe — February 9, 2017
(RNS) And at the bottom for the ninth year in a row: Vermont.
Maine man wins right to wear ‘horns of power’ in license photo
By Kimberly Winston — December 15, 2016
(RNS) Phelan MoonSong touted his goathorn headdress as "religiously required."
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