Peter Smith

This week’s Weekend Plug-in opens with the 50th anniversary of “The Waltons,” a family drama that incorporated religious stories when the TV networks tended to avoid them. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights Pope Francis’ trip to Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses at church-run residential schools. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights the most consequential Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in decades. Plus, catch up — as always — on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

This week’s Weekend Plug-in opens with God and guns — and the debate among religious people over firearms. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust

Rev. Andrew Kawecki had been on leave since the allegation arose in 2019.

They not only honor the war dead but ignore slavery and “scream white supremacy.” Short of removal, can their message be countered?

A statewide grand jury that spent nearly two years investigating six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania said it identified more than 1,000 child victims of more than 300 abusive priests across 54 of the state’s 67 counties. Still, the grand jury wrote in the report’s introduction that ther…

Pittsburgh’s Latino community is small, diverse, growing — and anxious

In Pittsburgh, these homes of God stand mute, often crumbling.

The best-known female woman evangelist of her time, she was a “one-woman shrine of Lourdes” who courted multitudes, and controversy.