Paul Ryan

The new tax bill’s war on churches (and other nonprofits)

By Mark Silk — October 10, 2018
(RNS) — Making America greater for millionaires and billionaires.

Mazal tov, Paul Ryan?

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 2, 2018
Welcome to the new Jewish denomination: Jews by surprise.

House chaplain wins job back after scalding letter to Ryan

By Yonat Shimron — May 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, forced the Rev. Pat Conroy to tender his resignation last month, sparking a firestorm. Ryan has said he was dissatisfied with Conroy's pastoral care to lawmakers.

House chaplain retracts resignation, presses Speaker Ryan to let him remain in post

By Yonat Shimron — May 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Conroy said he initially felt he had “little choice to resign,” but he has now reconsidered – especially in light of comments Ryan made that he fired the chaplain because his "pastoral services were not being adequately served, or offered." 

How the chaplain blew it

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 30, 2018
Reverend Conroy told the truth. Bad career move.

Paul Ryan doesn’t have a prayer

By Jacob Lupfer — April 27, 2018
(RNS) — The House speaker should not capitulate to the most odious and extreme impulses of his caucus. (Commentary)

Billy Graham should not lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda

By Jacob Lupfer — February 26, 2018
(RNS) — The cause that Graham served with longevity and distinction is evangelical Protestantism, not the United States of America.

Paul Ryan faces an urgent moral challenge

By John Gehring — February 6, 2018
(RNS) — More than 100 young immigrants a day lose protection and the ability to work legally. House Speaker Paul Ryan is now the most important leader in determining their future.

List of ‘Jews’ gets Republican candidate a slap from Twitter users

By Kimberly Winston — January 31, 2018
(RNS) — Many of the supposed 'Jews' and their supporters called out Paul Nehlen's anti-Semitism with ridicule.

House Republicans’ proposed tax reform will lead to church regulation

By Andrew L. Seidel — November 28, 2017
(RNS) — Permitting tax-exempt churches to engage in partisan politicking would throw untold millions — even billions is no exaggeration — of dark money into U.S. elections.

Ben Carson interprets Jewish history

By Jeffrey Salkin — March 8, 2017
Ben Carson taught us about slavery and immigration. Imagine how he could handle Jewish history.

10 predictions for the days after Nov. 8

By David P. Gushee — October 24, 2016
(RNS) Hillary wins, Donald launches Trump TV, and other predictions for Election Day and beyond.

Secularists sue House chaplain on National Day of Prayer

By Kimberly Winston — May 5, 2016
(RNS) The Freedom From Religion Foundation fights denial of a secular invocation before Congress.

Meet the ‘evangelical’ Catholics who are remaking the GOP

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 16, 2014
(RNS) In today's Republican Party, a number of factors have forged a new religious identity that supersedes familiar old categories.

Catholic and libertarian? Pope’s top adviser says they’re incompatible

By David Gibson — June 3, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Tuesday's daylong seminar showed how the moral implications of the debate over the role and size of government are playing out most vividly in the Catholic Church.
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