Mayor Zohran Mamdani fiercely condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, calling the attacks “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.”
Iranian evangelicals are staying put, tentative but hopeful, says pastor
Hormoz Shariat preaches to a congregation of millions of Iranian Christians around the world, those who have scattered because of repression at home and those who, having stayed, have long been the target of arrest by Iranian authorities, frequently accused of…
Unmarked graves found on land once owned by Catholic slaveholders trigger search for descendants
A team of student and professional history detectives — led by Laura Masur, assistant professor of anthropology at The Catholic University of America — have discovered what appear to be additional gravesites in a family cemetery on land once belonging…
The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers him the first pope. Martyred in…
Catholic bishops: Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship affronts Catholic teaching
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, arguing to the majority-Catholic justices that doing away with it would undermine…
Who is Telling the Truth About American Religion?
Okay, I guess it’s time to write the post that I’ve been dreading for a long time because I don’t know how it’s going to be received. Be warned—this one is super nerdy and goes very deep into the weeds of…
Israel’s parliament moves toward ban on mixed-gender prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among liberal Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon be…
What If Aliens Are Real? A Thought Experiment
This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the question of whether aliens are real, and it wasn’t even in the top 15 stories of the week. The debate was over not “aliens” as…
Checks, charities and conversion classes: What the Epstein files show about Jeffrey Epstein’s Jewish world
Sometime in the early 2010s, Jeffrey Epstein walked into Dr. Steven Kaplan’s office for a root canal.
Blaming the Left for Jihadism Gets it Backwards
In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre on Dec. 14, 2025, when a father and son inspired by ISIS murdered 15 Hanukkah celebrants in Sydney, Australia, some observers—particularly on the political right—rushed to assign blame not only to the…
Latter-Day Saints Open First-Ever Temple In Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s Mormon community have a new place to worship following the opening of the first-ever temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People Who Left ‘MAGA Christianity’ Share What It Really Took To Step Away
For many Americans raised in conservative Christian environments, faith once felt like a matter of personal conviction and community — not overt political allegiance. But over the past decade, the boundary between belief and ideology has blurred.