J.D. Vance took the stage at the March for Life to thunderous applause, positioning himself as a champion of conservative Catholic values. With Republican heavyweights like Ron DeSantis and Mike Johnson in attendance, the rally was a...
(RNS) — “We will bring honor to your name,” my Afghan friends said to me across our glowing Zoom screens. My team had just informed the group that a church in my hometown in Upper East Tennessee was eager to...
During a press conference, held in Rome this week, Mario Diel, the founding Chairman of IKAR Holdings, had announced that his group will empower its future business inspired by the Mensuram Bonam program of the Vatican. IKAR Holdings is a...
(RNS) — On Sunday (Jan. 26), a collection of U.S. Catholic bishops’ staffers met at a Capitol Hill hotel with Catholic advocates and educators at the USCCB’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. In a keynote, Emilce Cuda, a Vatican official overseeing...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The sudden death two years ago of Cardinal George Pell, the Australian prelate Pope Francis had enlisted to clean up the Vatican’s finances, left the Catholic conservative cohort in Rome without an identifiable leader. A new...
(RNS) — Decades before church leaders became as famous for their sneakers and aircraft use as for their preaching and ministry, Paul A. Rader, the first American-born general of the Salvation Army, showed a different, unassuming and kinder approach. A...
(RNS) — When Bishop Mariann Budde stood in the pulpit at the Washington National Cathedral at an inauguration week prayer service and asked President Donald to show mercy on migrants, she seemed to be treading on firm theological ground. “Blessed...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Upper Room Academy for Spiritual Formation is pleased to announce the upcoming Two-Year Academy #43, scheduled from November 3, 2025, to September 3, 2027. This immersive, cohort-based program is designed to deepen participants’ relationships with God,...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity. So it has...
(RNS) — It’s still a matter of debate whether the salute performed by Elon Musk at an Inauguration Day speech in Washington — a chest thump followed by a straight-armed gesture — was intended to evoke a Nazi salute. But...
