Opinion Top Three
What didn’t happen on Passover?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.
Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?
By Charles C. Camosy — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.
In ‘Infinite Dignity,’ the Vatican defends people, not politics
By Phyllis Zagano — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — Tackling matters that are the topic of political debates today, the document drew more controversy than intended.
‘Oppenheimer’ may have ignored our own nuclear victims. Congress should not.
By Bridget Moix — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires in June. It doesn’t have to.
A Jan. 6 antisemite is sent to prison. What do the presidential candidates say?
By Mark Silk — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — One condemns antisemitism. The other holds former Proud Boys up as victims.
Resisting our ‘new dark age’
By Karen Swallow Prior — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — In a time of information excess, the need of the moment is more love and more rest.
What’s happening at Columbia is monumental
By Omar Suleiman — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia’s students have a long history of protesting injustice — which the school has regretted squashing in the past. Will it make the same mistake?
Columbia University is another Charlottesville
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia University protests are like Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: Discuss. Welcome to an academic disgrace.
Pope Francis needs to stop treating Vatican officials like princes
By Thomas Reese — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — The only way to kill the papal court is to stop making Vatican officials bishops and cardinals.
Christians must confront the weaponization of a sacred promise
By Fares Abraham — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — Georgia’s Rick Allen used a passage from the Book of Genesis to bully the president of Columbia University.
How clean water and faith go hand in hand
By Susan Barnett — April 22, 2024
(RNS) — Water purifies and blesses in every religion. But it is more than a symbol: Clean water is a conduit of care and love.
Do homeless people have constitutional rights?
By Kevin Nye — April 22, 2024
(RNS) — Overwhelmingly, faith groups who filed for Johnson v. Grants Pass did so against criminalizing homelessness.
Purim, Passover and the formation of memory
By Beth Kissileff — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — An essential part of the memory-making of both Passover and Purim is the hope we find in gathering.
How to choose a great wine for Passover
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — Red wine, or white, for Passover? This year, why you might choose white wine.
A Muslim valedictorian is abandoned by her own university
By Dilshad Ali — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — The decision to bar Asna Tabassum from speaking shows academic institutions are failing to protect students equally.
