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Lawmakers join faith leaders to voice support for ‘Build Back Better’ package
By Jack Jenkins — October 20, 2021
WASHINGTON (RNS) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended provisions such as the child tax credit, saying lawmakers should ‘make sure that all children have the opportunity that they deserve — they’re all blessings containing their spark of divinity.’
It’s time to end the Catholic Church’s abortion culture wars
By John Gehring — October 20, 2021
(RNS) — Catholic bishops should spend more time listening to people, including pro-choice Catholic women.
Pope Francis meets with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Vatican
By Paul O'Donnell — October 9, 2021
(RNS) — The meeting came as American Catholic bishops consider how to press the church’s teaching against abortion in the face of an avowedly pro-choice Democratic administration.
Trump ambassador launches his own religious freedom franchise
By Jack Jenkins — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — The gathering’s organizers said it provides a rare example of bipartisan support in an era known for partisan rift.
US bishops set collision course with Vatican over plan to press Biden not to take Communion
By Steven P. Millies — June 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — A debate over whether President Biden's views on abortion disqualify him from taking Communion serves to expose a rift between US bishops and the pope, and is a threat to the church itself.
US Jews rally for more support in combating antisemitism
By Yonat Shimron — May 27, 2021
(RNS) — The Anti-Defamation League reported a 75% increase in antisemitic attacks in the U.S. in the wake of the clashes in Israel and Gaza. American Jews want their elected representatives to take more action.
Politicizing Biden’s faith is pastoral malpractice
By John Gehring — May 5, 2021
(RNS) — Deploying Communion as a bludgeon to selectively sanction elected officials on a single issue is not the answer.
Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben named as first woman to serve as House chaplain
By Bob Smietana — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — A Presbyterian minister and longtime chaplain will be the first woman to serve as House chaplain.
With ‘profound sorrow’: Ginsburg lies in state at US Capitol
By Lisa Mascaro — September 25, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman in American history to do so, in commemoration of her extraordinary life.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg first woman and first Jew to lie in state at US Capitol
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2020
(RNS) — No woman, let alone a Jew, has received the honor of lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. For Jews, however, the tradition of lying in state is a difficult one.
Video from priest says Catholics who vote for Democrats will go to hell. One bishop approves this message.
By Bob Smietana — September 6, 2020
(RNS) — A Texas bishop has endorsed a video that claims Catholics who vote Democratic will go to hell.
American Bible Society leader: Don’t use the Bible as a political ‘prop’
By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins — June 3, 2020
(RNS) — President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both posed with Bibles this week, moves that seem political. It’s a bad idea, said an American Bible Society leader.
How Romney and Pelosi used their faith to resist Trump
By Emma Petty Addams, Jennifer Butler, and Jennifer Walker Thomas — February 14, 2020
(RNS) — We can follow their example to stop supporting candidates who use faith as a means to consolidate power, influence or money.
Impeachment leads to theological war of words among Trump critics and backers
By Jack Jenkins — February 8, 2020
(RNS) — A theological war of words over Trump's impeachment has been going on for months, with the commander-in-chief and his opponents invoking the divine and questioning each other’s faith.
Loving your enemies is not easy, say National Prayer Breakfast speakers
By Bob Smietana — February 6, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Speakers at the National Prayer Breakfast, which organizers said drew about 4,000 people, urged attendees to love their enemies and not allow contempt to divide the nation.
