Despite the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vulnerable in the United States, the percentage of Americans in food-insecure households held steady in 2020 at 10.5%, figures released on Sept. 8, 2021, show.
Vatican won’t say if women can vote in 2023 church meeting
Vatican officials declined on Tuesday to say if women would be able to vote on concrete proposals about the future of the Catholic Church at the end of a two-year process of consultation of ordinary faithful that Pope Francis kicks…
‘A Private Matter’: Joe Biden’s Very Public Clash With His Own Church
As a rule dating back to the election, the reporters who follow the president go everywhere with him but two places: inside his home and inside his church.
Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that abortion is not a crime
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.
Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times politics may be coming to a state near you
It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end times. It was the age of Trump. It was 2019. Trump was compared with the greatest of God’s biblical champions. Things would never be the…
Faith leaders gather in Houston in response to gun violence
Red Letter Christians, a movement of left-leaning evangelicals, will lead a diverse group of faith leaders in a two-day rally against gun violence in Houston this weekend. The event comes the same week as a new Texas law went into…
Christian leaders unite to issue stark warning over climate crisis
Global Christian leaders have joined forces to warn that the world is facing a critical moment as the climate crisis threatens the future of the planet.
Trump and his religion advisers launch new national faith advisory board
In another sign Donald Trump is eyeing a run to regain the White House, the former president and his religious advisers announced the launch of a national faith advisory board on Thursday (Sept. 2), apparently aimed at reinvigorating his conservative…
Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias
A car passed, the driver’s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: “Terrorist!”
Pope Francis is preparing a radical reform of the church’s power structures
In 2001, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was a rapporteur for the summit of bishops at the Vatican — and he did not like what he saw.
GOP-led states see Texas law as model to restrict abortions
Republican states that have passed increasingly tough abortion restrictions only to see them blocked by the federal courts have a new template in an unusually written Texas law that represents the most far-reaching curb on abortions in nearly half a…
This rabbinical school is moving into a Catholic university
The Academy for Jewish Religion California has rented space in several locations during its 21-year existence as a transdenominational seminary that trains rabbis and cantors.