Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV’s key adviser and the Vatican’s secretary of state, described the deadly shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis as “unacceptable,” as a growing number of Catholic prelates in the United States have spoken against immigration…
Reformed Presbyterians excommunicate white supremacist minister
One of the oldest denominations in the United States has deposed and excommunicated a 42-year-old minister for his white supremacist views.
Faith leaders criticize Trump administration’s removal of Philadelphia slavery exhibit
Religious leaders are among those objecting to the National Park Service’s removal of a historic exhibit about slavery located steps away from Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and that featured African Methodist Episcopal Church founder Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, the first Black priest…
There are long-lasting, negative effects for children like Liam Ramos who are detained, or watch their parents be deported
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy who is an asylum seeker, in Minneapolis on Jan. 20, 2026, the photos quickly became a flash point in the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement activity.
There Is No Religious Revival
The Harvard Catholic Center wrapped up 2025 with huge news: the number of potential converts coming through its doors had doubled from the previous year. According to The Wall Street Journal “Free Expression” newsletter, the HCC is “booming,” dynamic proof that the kids are looking for…
Catholics must decide if they serve Donald Trump or the Gospel
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus famously proclaimed, “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.”
Amid Stunning Landscapes, A Monk, Zen Priest And Muslim Leader Feel At Home
I drove slowly along a winding 13-mile dirt road in the Chama River Canyon Wilderness area in New Mexico on a cool Saturday morning. Aside from the occasional bird and the sound of my tires crunching on the gravel, there…
I Trained to Monitor ICE but Found Myself Feeding the Hungry
I sit at a friend’s kitchen table at her home in our South Minneapolis neighborhood. A vinyl tablecloth wrinkles under my notebook as we work together to make a grocery list for her family so I can shop for her.
Mike Huckabee Tries to Get this Apocalypse Started
Last week, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem, whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the End Times.
Tim Walz invokes Anne Frank in pressing Trump to end ICE operations in Minnesota
Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, invoked Anne Frank in exhorting President Donald Trump to call off the ICE operations in the Twin Cities in which a second protester was killed over the weekend.
What ‘hope’ has represented in Christian history – and what it might mean now
Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought the Vatican’s Holy Year 2025 – designated as “Pilgrims of Hope” – to an end.
Can Liberal Zionism Survive Gaza?
With some distance from the world-historical catastrophe that is October 7 and the destruction of Gaza, it is reasonable to assert that this moment poses a singularly great challenge to liberal Zionism, the idea that Israel can be both a…