Religion News Service

Archbishop-designate James Golka, bishop of Colorado Springs since 2021, has the potential to unify Denver's 600,000 Catholics. He will be installed March 25.

The president's energy policy "has left the country unprepared for his war," Thomas Reese writes.

The Last Judgment is a common theme in Christian art. But Michelangelo's dramatic imagery in his Sistine Chapel fresco provokes deeper thought: After all, how does anyone on earth know what the saints do in heaven?

The Trump administration has opened Pandora's box by this war of choice.

Opposing philosophies, distilled from two ancient sacred texts, are colliding in horrific ways, writes columnist Phyllis Zagano.

"There simply isn’t enough capacity even for the local community. It's much harder with a population that has been abandoned in places that are extremely difficult," said Karen Perez, the country director for Jesuit Refugee Service in Mexico.

Still, the findings "don't support that Americans are overarchingly more judgmental or moralistic than in other countries," said Jonathan Evans, senior researcher at Pew Research Center.

Although some are pacifists, most Christians recognize that sometimes war is necessary and just, as philosophers and theologians for centuries have discussed and debated the criteria for a just war and its application in their times.

Religious service attendance reveals a picture of steady decline. A majority of U.S. residents — 57% — say they rarely or never attend religious services.

The only possible savior of this relationship is the Democrats' ability to push the bishops back into the Republican camp.

Some Christian users said they planned to stop using Hallow because of its partnership with Carlson, while others praised the collaboration. Multiple users called for boycotts of the app and other sponsors.

Phyllis Zagano asks: Have you heard any U.S. bishops defending women against Kid Rock or Trump or Bad Bunny? Are they cowed into submission by the false notion that women do not image Christ?

The plaintiff group — the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership — has announced that Cardinal Blase Cupich will be joining them for Ash Wednesday Mass.

At the ballot booth and in the streets, we must show that nonviolent collective action is still alive in America. What is at stake is the soul of our nation.

The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’

"I've had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they're citizens. That's not America," the Chicago cardinal said.

Some Catholic women are expressing disappointment that local clergy have kept mostly silent about what's happening in their parishes.

They should know that we are Christians by our love, not know that we are Catholics by our fights.

President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as an opportunity to attack his political enemies along religious lines.

"The Greek word 'martyr' literally means 'witness.' The tragic deaths of witnesses like Alex Pretti and Renee Good reveal the darkness around them," writes Bishop Joseph J. Tyson of Yakima, Washington.