John F. Kennedy
Joe Biden may unify the country. Don’t ask him to unify Catholics.
By Kenneth L. Woodward — April 19, 2021
(RNS) — Faggioli's book pits Pope Francis’ 'global left' and Biden’s 'liberal America' against conservative Catholics.
Joe Biden, president-elect at last, was shaped by a very American Catholic faith
By Jack Jenkins — November 7, 2020
(RNS) — The way he manages his allegiance to Catholicism gives a glimpse of how Biden will govern as he takes hold of an office he has sought since 1988.
When saints fall
By Thomas Reese — February 25, 2020
(RNS) — I can forgive sins of weakness, but I am not ready to forgive Theodore McCarrick, Vanier, Harvey Weinstein and other men who are alleged to have abused their power to prey on the vulnerable.
Will the Catholic Church self-destruct or bridge the partisan divide?
By Thomas Reese — July 31, 2019
(RNS) — American Catholics are almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, which means the church can either self-destruct or bridge the partisan divide.
Reckoning with Leonard Bernstein’s faith on the centennial of his birth
By Yonat Shimron — August 22, 2018
(RNS) — Did the multitalented Jewish composer and conductor finally find God and faith? We will never know.
The Vietnam War revisited
By Thomas Reese — April 11, 2018
(RNS) — Looking back, I feel guilty for being so stupid and burying myself in books rather than being part of the historic events of my time.
The irony of Trump’s Graham tribute
By Mark Silk — March 1, 2018
(RNS) — It goes back to Graham's treatment of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale — one of the president's heroes.
The most Jewish thing that JFK ever said
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 29, 2017
Was John F. Kennedy a Jewish theologian? Almost.
Will JFK’s grandson become our first Jewish president?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 11, 2017
A new category: Jews-by-surprise. It says more about us than about them.
2 Catholics to be honored on US stamps in 2017
By Mark A. Kellner — September 27, 2016
(RNS) The Postal Service does not typically commemorate individuals involved in religion, and the two men's faith was not the most important factor in their selection.
Americans have a long history of negative policies toward refugees, immigrants (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — November 18, 2015
(RNS) We're a nation of immigrants -- who tried to keep out Catholics, Jews and now Syrian refugees.
Pope Francis and America’s shifting views toward Catholics (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — January 23, 2015
(RNS) With a Catholic vice president and a Catholic speaker of the House looking on behind him, Pope Francis' speech will serve as a vivid reminder of how far Americans have come in overcoming deeply embedded anti-Catholic bigotry.
Can a nation so wounded by its divisions survive? (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — November 25, 2014
(RNS) We must ask who we are. Not what advertisers say we are, but who we actually are.
Video: Kennedy’s funeral procession to Arlington
By Sally Morrow — November 21, 2013
On Nov. 25, 1963, President John F. Kennedy's body is carried to Arlington National Cemetery. Friday, Nov. 22, will mark the 50th anniversary of this historic assassination.
What Dallas pastors preached the Sunday after JFK was killed
By Kevin Eckstrom — November 19, 2013
(RNS) Dallas clergy took to the pulpits on Nov. 24, 1963 to try to make sense of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just two days before. As they drew their sermons to a close, some would learn that the president's assassin had just been gunned down.
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