RNS Opening Budget — Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The White House’s deputy liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development is leaving her post after just two months in the job, alleging “anti-Christian sentiment” at the agency and calling lawmakers who criticized her views on sexuality and gender identity […]

NEWS STORY
RNS-USAID-Resignation: Blasting lawmakers, USAID official quits over alleged ‘anti-Christian sentiment’
(RNS) — The White House’s deputy liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development is leaving her post after just two months in the job, alleging “anti-Christian sentiment” at the agency and calling lawmakers who criticized her views on sexuality and gender identity “radical anti-Christian leftists.” By Jack Jenkins. 580 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Reese-Oped: Catholic bishops reprimand Trump as often as they praise him
(RNS) — Though the U.S. bishops side with President Trump on life issues, an analysis of their policy statements show, they take social justice issues more seriously than the president does — a fact often overshadowed in the media by their Catholic hierarchy’s attacks on Biden for his positions on abortion. By Thomas Reese. 1,700 words. (category: k)