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Two years after Pittsburgh shooting, solemn anniversary marked online

By Yonat Shimron

(RNS) — Public commemorations of the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, which killed 11 Pittsburgh Jews, will be livestreamed.

Three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice

By Adelle M. Banks

Poll chaplains plan to bring a ‘prayerful presence’ to precincts this Election Day

By Emily McFarlan Miller

With rising COVID-19 cases inside the Vatican, pressure mounts for Francis to don a mask

By Claire Giangravé

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Against the darkness: Remembering Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life shooting

By Campbell Robertson

(RNS) — At a court hearing for the Tree of Life shooter, two members of one of the affected synagogues came ‘to witness,’ saying, ‘That’s part of Jewish theory, to witness and remember.’

Your dread of the 2020 election and coronavirus will end. What will you obsess about then?

By Charles C. Camosy

(RNS) — We need to decide now if we are prepared to refuse the fear and politics that have divided us.

Barrett’s faith views go beyond even many pro-life Americans’ beliefs

By Kathy Rudy

(RNS) — Barrett’s Catholicism strictly follows the Magisterium’s teachings that are at odds with most Americans’ pragmatic philosophical leanings.

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