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Should Charity Be Apolitical?
John Berry, RealClearReligion
Francis in Full
Bishop Robert Barron, First Things
Never Forget: Pope Francis on Covid
Paul Kengor, Crisis
Good Teacher
César J. Baldelomar, Commonweal
Pope Francis Was No Friend Of The Poor
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
The Mental Health Crisis Ministers Struggle to Talk About
Christianity Today
Five Unusual Papal Burial Places
The Pillar
Heroism and the Holocaust
Seth Mandel, Commentary
At Shops Around Vatican, Pope Francis was Regular Customer and Friend
AP
The Court Should Bless Religious Charters
Nicole Stelle Garnett, Wall Street Journal
The Abuse Crisis is Still Roiling the Catholic Church
Chico Harlan, Washington Post
Video: Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
Ezra Klein, NYT
Gen Z is Finding Religion. Why?
Christian Paz, Vox
Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History
Adam Laats, The Atlantic
How Jews in Revolutionary War Helped Shape First Amendment
Times of Israel
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All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows
Amid a raging, mainly partisan battle over President Trump’s plans to slash foreign aid, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to address a summit of religious leaders and advocates looking to him fo...
Sec. Rubio Should Build on the Commission on Unalienable Rights
On Jan. 20, in his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated his determination to “make America great again.” America’s founding affirmation of and the nation&rsquo...
U.S. Must Acknowledge and Address Religious Persecution in Nigeria
Last month in Nigeria, Christians were confronted with yet another reminder of the ongoing threats they face in their own communities. In August, “more than 70 Nigerian Christians were killed an...
Don’t Forget the Victims of Persecution in Nigeria
Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defe...

RCReligion Analysis

Should Charity Be Apolitical?

John Berry, RealClearReligion

Why should a Catholic charity involve itself in advocacy? “Stay out of politics,” many would say. If you want to help the poor,... Read More

The Pope Who Saw God in Queer Kids, Migrants, and the Poor

Michael Vazquez, RealClearReligion

For over a decade, Pope Francis stood as a spiritual counterweight to the cynicism and cruelty that have come to define too much of our... Read More

Faith, Stigma, And Healing

Reina Olmeda, RealClearReligion

We are in the trenches of a mental health crisis. The World Health Organization reports a staggering statistic: 1 in 4 people will... Read More

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Should Charity Be Apolitical?

John Berry, RealClearReligion

Why should a Catholic charity involve itself in advocacy? “Stay out of politics,” many would say. If you want to help the poor,... Read More

Francis in Full

Bishop Robert Barron, First Things

By common consensus, Jorge ­Mario Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy by means of an intervention he made at one of the General... Read More

Never Forget: Pope Francis on Covid

Paul Kengor, Crisis

But then the news hit that August 18. I read on my phone that morning that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, head of the world’s... Read More

Good Teacher

César J. Baldelomar, Commonweal

Pope Francis didn’t just change the course of Church history and politics—he also helped me find my way back to an institution I had... Read More

Pope Francis Was No Friend Of The Poor

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

Thinking that he was working to uplift the poor and downtrodden of the world, Francis accepted all the most destructive prescriptions of the... Read More

The Mental Health Crisis Ministers Struggle to Talk About

Christianity Today

Nicholas Davis thanks God he’s still alive.  That wasn’t his plan.  He was a young man serving as senior pastor at a... Read More

Five Unusual Papal Burial Places

The Pillar

When Pope Francis is laid to rest at the Basilica of St. Mary Major Saturday, he will be the first pope since Leo XIII to be buried somewhere... Read More

Heroism and the Holocaust

Seth Mandel, Commentary

UnBroken is an unusual Holocaust documentary. The film, now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of seven siblings, the Webers, who survived... Read More

At Shops Around Vatican, Pope Francis was Regular Customer and Friend

AP

In the streets around the Vatican, where Pope Francis used to make impromptu outings, some of the shopkeepers are mourning the man they knew,... Read More

The Court Should Bless Religious Charters

Nicole Stelle Garnett, Wall Street Journal

The Supreme Court will consider next Wednesday whether the First Amendment requires states to permit religious charter schools. The... Read More

The Abuse Crisis is Still Roiling the Catholic Church

Chico Harlan, Washington Post

Pope Francis had once vowed to eradicate the “evil” of sexual abuse from the Roman Catholic Church. He called bishops to Rome for... Read More

Video: Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics

Ezra Klein, NYT

The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally. Read More

Gen Z is Finding Religion. Why?

Christian Paz, Vox

For most of the last 30 years, the story of religion in America has been a pretty steady one: a constant, and consistent, drop in religious... Read More

Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History

Adam Laats, The Atlantic

The founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross. Read More

How Jews in Revolutionary War Helped Shape First Amendment

Times of Israel

The colonies were overwhelmingly Christian, with Jews representing just one out of every 1,000 colonists and 0.1 percent of the population.... Read More

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All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows
Amid a raging, mainly partisan battle over President Trump’s plans to slash foreign aid, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to address a summit of religious leaders and advocates looking to him fo...
Sec. Rubio Should Build on the Commission on Unalienable Rights
On Jan. 20, in his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated his determination to “make America great again.” America’s founding affirmation of and the nation&rsquo...
U.S. Must Acknowledge and Address Religious Persecution in Nigeria
Last month in Nigeria, Christians were confronted with yet another reminder of the ongoing threats they face in their own communities. In August, “more than 70 Nigerian Christians were killed an...
Don’t Forget the Victims of Persecution in Nigeria
Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defe...

RCReligion Analysis

Should Charity Be Apolitical?

John Berry, RealClearReligion

Why should a Catholic charity involve itself in advocacy? “Stay out of politics,” many would say. If you want to help the poor,... Read More

The Pope Who Saw God in Queer Kids, Migrants, and the Poor

Michael Vazquez, RealClearReligion

For over a decade, Pope Francis stood as a spiritual counterweight to the cynicism and cruelty that have come to define too much of our... Read More

Faith, Stigma, And Healing

Reina Olmeda, RealClearReligion

We are in the trenches of a mental health crisis. The World Health Organization reports a staggering statistic: 1 in 4 people will... Read More

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Religion & Politics

Should Charity Be Apolitical?

John Berry, RealClearReligion

Why should a Catholic charity involve itself in advocacy? “Stay out of politics,” many would say. If you want to help the poor, stick with works of charity. Leave it to the experts to address the issues that cause or perpetuate poverty, dependency, and need.  As the president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) USA — one of the largest religious charities in the cou... Read More

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Never Forget: Pope Francis on Covid

Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine

But then the news hit that August 18. I read on my phone that morning that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, head of the world’s largest body of Christians, stated that Catholics not only should get the shot but had a moral duty to do so. He said that “getting vaccinated is an act of love” and “our choice to get vaccinated affects others.”  As happene... Read More

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Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion

Lauren Jackson, The New York Times

On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true. I’d climb the stairs to the pulpit and smooth my long skirt. I’d smile and share my “testimony,” as the church calls it. I’d say I knew God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, prayer, spirits and miracles were all real. I’d express gratitude for my family and for my ances... Read More

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