(RNS) — The United States Constitution rightly secures protections for Americans whatever their race, religion and ethnicity. But not gender. Any rights and protections based on gender — equal pay for men and women, equality in marriage, freedom from workplace...
(RNS) — House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi wants the Vatican to overturn her archbishop’s decision to ban her from taking Communion. The Democratic politician told the National Catholic Reporter, in the second installment of an interview published Thursday (Dec. 12),...
(RNS) — With one month left in office, the Biden administration has released a 67-page strategy to fight Islamophobia and counter discrimination against Muslims and Arabs. The policy, released on Thursday (Dec. 12), is modeled on a similar strategy to...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to leaders of wealthy nations, asking them to forgive the debt of poorer countries in the spirit of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee year — a time the...
(RNS) — Faith leaders are reacting with concern to a report that President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind a long-standing policy that discourages immigration officials from conducting raids at churches, schools and hospitals. According to a report from NBC News...
Sing it with me now: “Chestnuts roasting on a dumpster fire…” Gather ’round with your marshmallows and cups of cheer, it’s that time of year to send good tidings and spiced takes. No, that’s not a typo,...
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In mid-October, the day before the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attack on southern Israel, activists in Chihuahua, Mexico, strung a banner bearing a pro-Palestinian message from a parking garage to the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Chihuahua....
(RNS) — When Patita Pavana Das was a sophomore at Indiana State University, he considered his life pretty typical: geoscience student by day, partaker in the school’s party culture by night. But as he learned more about the Earth’s billion-year...
(RNS) — A group of faith leaders, activists, law enforcement officials and families of murder victims has called on President Joe Biden to spare the lives of about 40 inmates currently on death row in federal prisons. The campaign is...
LONDON (RNS) — Two weeks before Christmas is normally one of the busiest times of the year for the Archbishop of Canterbury, spent preparing his sermon for Canterbury Cathedral’s Christmas morning service that makes the news on British television on...
