Jack Jenkins

"There's the sense that the liberal order is so corrupt that elite Catholics have to find positions of influence and use them in a kind of noble and appropriate way," says scholar Kevin Vallier.

In recent months, Catholic Charities staffers across the country have experienced increased smears and threats by critics opposed to offering aid to immigrants. 

Participants in the protest played guitars and blew shofars as they sang songs in English and Hebrew for at least three hours.

In Laudate Deum, Francis commends the U.S. bishops for having "expressed very well" in a 2019 declaration the "social meaning of our concern about climate change." Yet U.S. bishops are better known for activism that focuses on voicing opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights efforts.

Faith groups are teaming up with liberal secular organizations to combat white Christian nationalist ideology, which they say is a threat to democracy — and, for many, to their religion.

GOP representatives, who seem to be taking their cues from deeply conservative Catholic groups that vow to "#defund the bishops," plan to cut funding to a DHS program that supports Catholic relief centers at the United States' Southern border.

Critics are questioning whether the change is a full departure from the past or merely cosmetic.

The meeting of Ye, Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump was a win for an extreme, Catholic-leaning subset of Christian nationalism.

‘The ideology of Christian nationalism helped motivate and intensify the insurrection,’ read the letter to the committee, signed by the heads of several major denominations.

 "We worship God by caring for creation," reads the 50-page report titled "Loving the Least of These: Addressing a Changing Environment."

"If this is what the bishops are going to do, if this was their plan for a 'post-Roe' world, then Catholics are going to be very disappointed," said one observer of the Catholic hierarchy.

Former President Donald Trump seemed to frame himself as leading an existential fight against liberal foes, defending America from an attack on the Christian faith.

Catholic bishops from Colorado asked Catholic lawmakers who voted in favor of abortion rights legislation earlier this year to "voluntarily refrain from Holy Communion," according to an open letter signed June 6 and provided to Religion News Service.

Since San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barred House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist in his jurisdiction on May 20, three other bishops from the conservative wing of the U.S. Catholic Church have followed, citing her support for abortion rights as cause to invalidate her right to the sacrament.

Two days after San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced he would bar her from receiving the Eucharist in her home city due to her stance on abortion rights, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly received the sacrament at a Catholic church in the nation's capital.

Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, experts warn that faith-fueled right-wing extremist groups may be planning to appear at other events to challenge supporters of abortion rights.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow spoke April 19 against a form of conservative rhetoric, utilized by colleague Sen. Lana Theis, that casts defenders of LGBTQ rights as "groomers." She later spoke with RNS about her speech and faith.

The head of the World Council of Churches is urging Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, to call for a cease-fire in Ukraine as Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter this weekend.

World Council of Churches is under pressure to oust the Russian Orthodox Church from its ranks, with detractors arguing the church's leader, Patriarch Kirill, invalidated its membership by backing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and involving the church in the global political machinations of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, has become well-known for challenging advocates for abortion rights and those who want to make the COVID-19 vaccines mandatory. But last month, he took a step that defied usual protocol: He challenged his fellow bishops.