Ben Zobrist, who helped the Chicago Cubs break a century-old championship drought, has sued his former pastor for millions in damages.
White House: Biden’s Catholic faith is not ‘political’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that President Joe Biden did not interpret his Catholic faith “through a political prism,” declining to comment on a recent decision by U.S. Catholic bishops that could result in a rebuke…
White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
Since the 1970s, white American evangelicals – a large subsection of Protestants who hold to a literal reading of the Bible – have often managed to get specific privileges through their political engagement primarily through supporting the Republican Party.
President Biden pledges support for Rev. Barber’s campaign to end poverty
The Rev. William J. Barber reignited his Moral Marches to end poverty at the place where it all started eight years ago, the outdoor mall behind the North Carolina General Assembly.
AOC, other Catholic Democrats urge bishops against ‘weaponization’ of Communion
A group of 60 Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives, including Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, released a “statement of principles” Friday (June 18) calling on U.S. Catholic bishops to avoid “weaponizing” the Eucharist. The statement was announced shortly…
Scenes from the SBC Annual Meeting
We have published several photos in earlier reports about the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Here are some additional moments from the meeting.
Court: If bias rules have exceptions, faith groups qualify
Justice Samuel Alito called it a “wisp” of a decision — a Supreme Court ruling Thursday that favored Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia but was far from the constitutional gale wind that would have reshaped how courts interpret religious liberty…
Conservative activists heckle Pence at conference in Florida
Some attendees at a conference in Florida for conservative activists heckled former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday during a speech.
Bishops quick to debate Eucharist — and Joe Biden — at meeting
The opening day of the American Catholic bishops’ spring meeting on Wednesday (June 16) had nothing on the agenda about the controversial topic of Communion and President Joe Biden. The meeting’s first-day sessions were supposed to be dedicated to the…