American Catholics
Voucher expansion leads to more students, waitlists and classes for some religious schools
By Holly Meyer — March 4, 2024
(AP) — Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was among nine states that expanded school voucher programs last year.
Jordan Peterson wrestles with God
By Meagan Saliashvili — February 15, 2024
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (RNS) — In a new lecture tour to support a forthcoming book, the psychologist and public intellectual hews ever closer to Christianity, tantalizing fans who take their cues on converting from his secular but religiously curious thought.
US Catholic leadership foresees challenges after repeated election defeats for abortion opponents
By David Crary — December 20, 2023
(AP) — The latest rebuff came Nov. 7 in Ohio, when voters decisively approved a constitutional amendment that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care.
Catholic bishops’ president calls for better border management, continued care for immigrants
By Peter Smith — June 16, 2023
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Broglio voiced skepticism about the trend of some governors shipping migrants elsewhere — typically from red to blue states amid a wider ideological clash over how to respond to asylum seekers and other migrants.
How the teen mental health crisis is turning some youth pastors into first responders
By Elizabeth E. Evans — April 18, 2023
(RNS) — Young people, youth pastors say, are pushing the church to be more willing to talk about mental health.
Biden visits Vatican embassy to pay respects to Benedict XVI
By Zeke Miller — January 6, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Benedict had 'a more conservative view within the Catholic realm than I have,' the president said, but 'I admired him. I thought he was a fine man'.
In Philadelphia, artwork brings Catholic Church’s synod to life
By Kyle Desrosiers — November 30, 2022
(RNS) — Artwork reflecting the thoughts of young Catholics in Philadelphia pointed up the contentious issues swirling as the continental phase of the Synod on Synodality begins.
How to be one church in divisive times
By Charles C. Camosy — November 29, 2022
(RNS) — Remember the great gift of the exhortation, 'Be the first to love.'
Getting hip to Dimes Square Catholicism is the latest way to own the libs
By Jacob Lupfer — August 11, 2022
(RNS) — Rome, packaged as a trend item for the trust-fund literary set, will never win converts.
Catholics’ reports on the state of the Church are in. Here’s what they have to say.
By Phyllis Zagano — August 1, 2022
(RNS) — Clericalism is a scourge on the Church, Catholics say, and women are not included in leadership.
Creating a Catholic Church she can belong to
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — June 3, 2022
(RNS) — Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, is often asked why she doesn’t leave a church whose direction she often questions. But she long ago found that Catholicism offered the very theology that promised her, and so many others, belonging.
Protestants and the pill: How US Christians helped make birth control mainstream
By Samira Mehta — May 25, 2022
(The Conversation) — Conservative Christians have cheered restrictions on some birth control. But many decades ago, Christian leaders’ support helped contraceptives become acceptable in the first place.
Will overturning Roe finally allow Catholics to pursue a consistent ethic of life?
By Steven P. Millies — May 16, 2022
(RNS) — The next months and years will be as critical a moment for Catholics as the years after Roe was decided.
Lay Catholics fill the enthusiasm gap on Francis’ Synod on Synodality
By Renée Roden — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — The synod has seemingly failed to grab the attention of American Catholics. A few dedicated lay organizers are trying to change that.
Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned
By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.
Page 1 of 3
