On Tuesday, January 7, 2025—just its second day of the session—the Idaho legislature sent a joint House and Senate petition to the United States Supreme Court outlining their collective rejection of its Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which required all states to grant…
Speaker Johnson cites Genesis after House passes bill banning trans people from women’s sports
Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated the House passage of a bill banning transgender students from girls’ sports on Tuesday (Jan. 14) by linking opposition to transgender rights with a passage from the biblical book of Genesis.
Review: American Christianity Today
The debate rages, especially in light of the ascendancy of a virulent form of Christian Nationalism, about whether the United States is a Christian nation. The answer to that question depends on how we define our terms. Constitutionally, the United…
Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at least about his youth
An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance he has encountered ever since, in his autobiography being released Tuesday that also doubles down on some of his…
The Catholic Church Must Challenge Trump on Deportations
Among Donald Trump’s most alarming, repeated and ambitious commitments as a candidate was to arrest and deport up to 12 million undocumented immigrants. Many are Mexican and have been in the United States for more than 10 years.
Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race
Even after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, Americans continue to argue about her race.
They love Donald Trump — and hate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal he demanded
One American president, said Yuval Malka, presented a “window of opportunity” for Israel to have free rein across the Middle East. But the other, he cautioned, was fickle, appearing to love Israel but liable to leave it in the lurch…
More than $5 billion spent on Catholic sexual abuse allegations, new report finds
Over two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of minors, according to a new report released Wednesday (Jan. 15) by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate…
Europe must combat antisemitism as thousands of Jews abandon the continent, top Jewish leader says
Governments across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism that’s driving thousands of Jews to abandon the continent, the leader of a prominent European Jewish organization said Monday.
‘Ancient Christianities’: A Look At The Church’s Evolution Over Its First 500 Years
Christianity’s evolution, we are told in this densely packed, deeply analytical history of the faith’s early centuries, “involves a large cast of characters.” They included “not only theologians, bishops, and emperors, but also gods and demons, angels and magicians, astrologers…
Speaker Mike Johnson pushing to replace House chaplain
House Speaker Mike Johnson has launched an effort to select a new House chaplain, working with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on a framework to select a new person to fill the post just days after the current chaplain offered a…
Some US lawmakers want more Christianity in the classroom. Trump could embolden their plans
Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring teachers to post the Ten Commandments.