Tim Townsend
Tim Townsend is religion writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Blog Posts by Tim Townsend
Posted by Tim Townsend 2 weeks 6 days ago
On the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Rev. Gary Meier addressed a congregation of sorts — people who wanted to hear what the Roman Catholic priest had been thinking since, nearly...
Posted by Tim Townsend 4 weeks 13 hours ago
Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent.Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to...
Posted by Tim Townsend 7 weeks 5 days ago
On a recent rainy Saturday, about 125 Catholics packed a basement conference room, many of them older, most of them lay people. Many were representing their parishes.They gathered here to learn how...
Posted by Tim Townsend 9 weeks 1 day ago
At issue was a new $100 “annual registration fee” that the city imposed on churches and nonprofits. Most of the fee will go toward building safety and fire inspections, and $25 toward administration...
Posted by Tim Townsend 17 weeks 5 days ago
ST. LOUIS — A decision by the leader of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to censure a pastor for participating in a prayer service for victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre has reopened old...
