WASHINGTON (RNS) — Some 40-plus Catholic Democrats in Congress have issued what amounts to a theological rebuke of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s scriptural defense for President Donald Trump’s mass ...

R. Bruce Anderson writes that the president's blasphemous meme and profane feud with the pope are a symptom of a wider disconnect of politics from morality.

Images of Christian leaders praying over the president in the Oval Office recently circulated widely online. For many believers, they raised an old question: What is the proper relationship between ...

Pope Leo XIV, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, decried people who twist religion for military, economic or political benefit. "Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who ...

The panel on Tuesday's RealClearPolitics podcast discusses Vice President JD Vance's comments about war and faith this morning: VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: My attitude towards military conflict has ...

There are moments when a document arrives not merely as information but as a summons. The annual religious liberty report released Feb. 17 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for ...

On a mild February morning in McAllen, the sprawling interior of Catholic Charities’ Humanitarian Respite Center was quiet. Shampoo and hygiene products lined shelves on either side of a statue of the ...

John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University and an abuse survivor, speaks during a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion at the Leadership ...