(The Conversation) — The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon. Hunter Biden will be spared potential jail time...
(RNS) — In the final hours of 2024, North Carolina’s outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, commuted 15 death sentences, reducing by 10% the fifth-largest death row in the country — 121 of the state’s prisoners still await execution. Days earlier, just...
(RNS) — Saying “I’m standing here as a testimony,” Bishop T.D. Jakes returned to his Dallas megachurch on New Year’s Eve for his first in-person appearance after suffering an unspecified medical incident in November. “I had a fair amount of...
(RNS) — Millions of Americans made resolutions to start the New Year, hoping to exercise, eat right and otherwise try to be healthier in 2025. For an increasing number of Americans, this includes avoiding seed oils — like corn and...
SAN ANTONIO (RNS) — As a mariachi began to play at an event for San Antonio community and faith-based organizations early last month, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller’s feet started moving, and even as he was swarmed by Catholics asking...
(RNS) — Before Christmas, The New York Times ran a piece by political reporter Katie Glueck offering up religion as a way to bring Democrats out of the political wilderness. Among her examples of next-gen Dems who have the right...
SAN ANTONIO (RNS) — The children had already gathered on stage for the praise dance finale of a local community organizing network event when Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller took the microphone and put his arm around Sheila, an immigrant who had...
This is the 3rd podcast to top the Apple charts from Ascension, a leading Catholic media company. Ascension (Press) has released a 3rd instant-hit podcast at the #1 spot in all categories on the Apple charts, ahead of shows like...
Released by Healing Science Today, “Science and Spirituality” contributes to the discovery of restorative forces Launched online in 2010, Healing Science Today carries into the New Year its resolve to ask thought-provoking questions and seek meaningful answers about science, miracles,...
JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray. Syria’s 13-year civil war...
