Religion & Faith

There’s been a slow but steady movement across the U.S. to unseal records for adoptees, but bipartisan efforts have repeatedly stalled in Texas – and one state senator has consistently stood in the way.

While a canonical investigation between the Arlington Carmelite nuns and Fort Worth Bishop Michael F. Olson is pending in Rome, tensions remain.

A new Texas law going into effect Sept. 1 could put chaplains in public schools as counselors.

Fort Worth Assistant City Manager William Johnson told City Council members and staff that updates to the city’s banner policy have been “well overdue.”

Attending a drag show at Hamburger Mary's, and later posting about it on social media, led to Kristi Maris losing her teaching job of nearly 20 years, she wrote on Facebook.

Four years ago, the city of Fort Worth was hit with backlash after allowing Metroplex Atheists, a North Texas nonprofit, to promote an event with signs on downtown street lights. Now, the same organization is suing after the city denied its request to promote another event.

Frederick Douglass Haynes III, pastor of Dallas' Friendship-West Baptist Church, now heads the Rainbow Push Coalition, succeeding civil rights icon Jesse Jackson.

Clergy in the historically Black neighborhood assembled to address a mass shooting that occurred during a Como neighborhood block party late July 3. The incident left three people dead and eight injured.

The suit accused Bishop Michael Olson of illegally accessing electronic devices in a search to confirm whether the head nun broke her vow of chastity. Arlington police also closed its criminal investigation into the incident.

Gov. Abbott signed the measure into law. Now, districts have until March 1 of next year to vote on having chaplains on staff.

Judge Don Cosby plans to decide next week whether Tarrant County has jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed by Arlington nuns against Fort Worth’s Bishop Michael Olson.