Eviction comes to Church of John Coltrane, home of sacred jazz

Mississippi's Senate just approved a sweeping 'religious liberty' bill that critics say is the worst yet for LGBT rights
Washington Post: Mississippi's House Bill 1523 says, among other things, that public employees, businesses, and social workers cannot be punished for denying services based on the belief that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman.
Christian Science Monitor: Concealed guns in church: Mississippi approves Church Protection Act

The little church around the corner
Atlas Obscura: This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Eviction comes to Church of John Coltrane, home of sacred jazz
Religion News Service: Sunday Masses are built on a live performance of "A Love Supreme." But where the music will play next, and for how long, is unclear.

Poll: Only 50 percent of Italians call themselves Catholic
Religion News Service: Italy may be the spiritual home of 1.2 billion members of the Catholic Church around the world, but a new poll shows only 50 percent of Italians consider themselves Catholic.

'Perhaps it is true'
Crux: The living Christ gives us joy, as Francis says. But doubt is inescapable. On the other hand, says Benedict, no one can forget, either, the eerie, soul-quickening, rapturous feelings induced by hearing those words ... "perhaps it is true."