by News Feed Editor | Jul 6, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — This year’s Independence Day party at the private residence of the United States’ ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch, was a brightly colored spectacle mixing the patriotic with the sacred, as cardinals lined up to cut a star-spangled cake...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 6, 2026 | Religion
EL PASO, Texas (RNS and El Paso Matters) — For 40 years, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso has provided legal assistance to hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Now, the ministry, Estrella del Paso, says the Trump administration’s refusal to pay more than...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 6, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — “If I perish, I perish.” That’s the chant sociologist Katie Gaddini heard echoing from the National Mall in October 2024, weeks before President Donald Trump was elected a second time. Raised an evangelical, Gaddini knew the reference — Esther 4:16, a Bible...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 4, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – This 4th of July, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, the first American-born pope chose to spend the day in the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a symbol of the immigrant influx polarizing...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 3, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV marked the United States’ 250th anniversary by calling his home country back to its founding ideals during a speech in which he defined liberty through protecting human life, welcoming immigrants and supporting religious freedom and...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 2, 2026 | Religion
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A week into the 16-day Great American State Fair, gospel music could be heard in one section of the National Mall and rodeo calls on the other. Bible verses were recited from one stage while songs like “Macho Man” played on the speakers elsewhere....
