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Catholics see a familiar political divide in Pope Leo XIV and his eldest brother

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

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The establishment clause lives to fight another day

Mark Silk

New Jersey church’s proposed homeless shelter still in limbo after zoning meeting

Bob Smietana

Five years after George Floyd’s murder, church leaders say race relations face retrenchment

People embrace while attending a march remembering George Floyd on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Adelle M. Banks

(RNS) — ‘We are honest about the conditions that we're facing, but we are not hopeless about what we're facing,' said Bishop W. Darin Moore of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

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Pope Leo XIV’s first US bishop appointment is a former refugee

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

Hindu refugees from Bhutan are being deported to a country they cannot live in

Richa Karmarkar

Don’t shut down the ERLC, say former SBC presidents in open letter

Bob Smietana

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As US Institute of Peace is ordered reinstated, people of faith must support it

Tarunjit Singh Butalia

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Capital Jewish Museum shooting reminds us to watch our words

Brad Hirschfield

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19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name

(The Conversation) — The most recent Pope Leo’s writings about workers’ rights amid the Industrial Revolution form the foundation of modern Catholic social teachings.

Thomas G Bohlin

With Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic divide finds a bridge

(RNS) — No sound bite will capture this papacy. But we’ve been given a clue.

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Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

Mark Sherman

WASHINGTON (AP) — The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school.

Pope Leo XIV calls for aid to reach Gaza and an end to hostilities in his first general audience

Nicole Winfield

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said that around 40,000 people were on hand for the audience, which came just days after an estimated 200,000 people attended the inaugural Mass on Sunday for history’s first American pope.

19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name

Nathan Schneider

(The Conversation) — The most recent Pope Leo’s writings about workers’ rights amid the Industrial Revolution form the foundation of modern Catholic social teachings.

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