Mariann Budde

Poor People’s Campaign asks Congress to vote on wages, voting rights before midterms

By Adelle M. Banks — September 28, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The letters were the latest plea for policy change by the movement modeled after the original Poor People’s Campaign started by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Black clergy testify to outrage and hope in demonstrations across Washington

By Jack Jenkins — June 15, 2020
(RNS) — Citing recent killings by police as well as the ravages of the pandemic, leaders of several faiths called on the government to take responsibility.

Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House

By Jack Jenkins — June 2, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — An Episcopal priest tells RNS she was driven from church grounds ahead of Trump’s staged photo with a Bible.

Episcopal diocese suspends Communion wine, drains baptismal fonts due to coronavirus

By Jack Jenkins — March 10, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We’re to be good citizens, and we’re to be good neighbors,’ said the Rev. Mariann Budde, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who distributed a letter outlining new diocesanwide policies meant to curb the spread of the disease.

There really is ‘something about Mary’

By Kimberly Winston — December 23, 2015
(RNS) Look around. The Virgin Mary is everywhere -- tattoos, roadside shrines, phone cases, even drawstring pants. The mother of Jesus, it seems, can be all things to all people.
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