Conservative media figures celebrated the loss of income and employment for over 60 workers at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights organization perhaps best known for monitoring and helping dismantle right-wing extremist groups.
Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to address a G7 summit, raising alarm about AI. The G7 responds
Pope Francis challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies on Frida y to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence, warning that such powerful technology risks turning human relations themselves into mere algorithms.
In Mecca on Eid al-Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
This year, as millions of Muslims flock to the land where Abraham once offered his greatest sacrifice in the ritual pilgrimage known as Hajj, they carry in their hearts a burden far heavier than their own sins and supplications. Whether…
Why the pope met with famous comics like Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon
On Friday, Pope Francis gathered famous comedians from all around the world at the Vatican, per CNN. He praised their ability to spread peace, invite unity and provoke laughter.
As Israeli tourism to Georgia has boomed, these Israelis have put down roots in Tbilisi
In the ancient land of khachapuri cheese bread and famous qvevri wine fermented in earthenware vessels, Danny Licht now offers a rival ethnic delicacy: falafel.
PCA Will Investigate ‘Jesus Calling’ Book
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) at its annual meeting on Thursday voted to investigate the Christian appropriateness of the best-selling book Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, who was part of the PCA and died in August last year at age 77. Young was…
Gospel group, basking in resurgence, releases first new music in nearly 50 years
She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life.
A trans hermit reminds us that the church once saw sex difference as a matter of degree
Hard on the heels of a Vatican document adamantly rejecting trans and gender fluidity and condemning gender reassignment surgery, a Catholic hermit came out publicly as trans last month with the consent of his local bishop. Judging from the social media response, the announcement…
The Reformed Church in America to vote on restructuring
In the past five years, the Reformed Church in America, one of the oldest denominations in the U.S., has lost almost half its membership and nearly a quarter of its churches. Some members see in the collapse an opportunity to…
Ruing past boarding-school abuses, US Catholic bishops approve new outreach to Native Americans
U.S. bishops on Friday approved new guidelines for ministering to Indigenous Catholics, a long in-the-works effort to reinvigorate the ministry and assure those communities that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one.
‘Hello, Trump warriors!’ Little-known preachers and rabble rousers are the unregulated ID of the felon’s first rally
“Idon’t care about you, I just want your vote.” That’s the clip from Trump’s Sunday rally in Vegas that went viral: ex-president, navy blazer; open-necked white shirt, the sagging orange lizard hide shadowed by a bright red MAGA cap beneath…
Is Catholicism Surging Among Younger Folks?
My wife and I bought our house about fifteen years ago. It was built in 1940 and had sat empty for a couple of years before we moved in. There were a lot of problems, obviously. But, in true Midwestern…








