RealClearReligion Week of April 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 7
Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Defrocked Over Sex Abuse, Dies at 94
NYTimes
The Hidden Web of Religious Discrimination in Government Funding
City Journal
Ailing Pope Surprises Pilgrims During Jubilee of the Sick
Justin McLellan OSV
A Way in the Wilderness
Alejandra Oliva Commonweal
The Difficulty with Diversity
Shadi Hamid Comment
Which Identity Is More Important: Race, Gender or Religion?
Graphs About Religion
Harvard Divinity School Suspends Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative
HC
Understanding the 'Nones'
Andrew Teal Deseret News
China’s New Religion Laws ‘Pretext’ for Arrests, Clerics Say
Ed Condon The Pillar
The Meaning of ‘Rock’ in the New Testament
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
Ready for Gibson’s “Acid Trip” Resurrection?
Sean Fitzpatrick Crisis


Tuesday, April 8
Pious Bible Errors
Dr. Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer Word on Fire
A Greek Monk in Ancient Cliffside Monastery Keeps Island Life Together
AP
Who Was Jesus? The World May Never Know.
Jack Hanson The New York Times
Hallow Cuts Ties with Russell Brand After Rape Charges
Gina Christian OSV News
Brian Burch, Critic of Pope, to be Vetted as Trump's Vatican Ambassador
NCR
A Rival Magisterium
Shaun Blanchard Commonweal Magazine
Decades-Old Disputes Over LGBTQ Clergy
Richard Ostling Religion Unplugged
Catholic Bishops Will No Longer Partner with US on Refugee Work
RNS
C.I. Scofield: God’s Self-Made Man
Daniel G. Hummel The Acton Institute
Vatican Pension Deficit Estimated at 1.4 Billion Euros — 10 Years Ago
The Pillar
On Passover, Do We Ask God to Pour Wrath or Love?
Jewish Journal
Not ‘Where is God?’ — But ‘Where are We?’
Kenneth Brander Times of Israel


Wednesday, April 9
Catholics Set to Exceed Anglicans for First Time Since Reformation
Cath. Herald
Synodality Against Episcopacy?
George Weigel First Things
America Lost & Alone
Mark Tooley Providence
Ora et Labora: The Benedictine Work Ethic
William P. Hyland Plough
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Champion of Life
Jordan J. Ballor Acton Institute
CatholicVote President Grilled on Aid at Vatican Ambassador Hearing
CNA
The Passover Seder is Model for Healing Democracies in Peril
Times of Israel
'Col. Passes Bill Treating as Abuse Dissent From Transgender Orthodoxy
DS
What Can We Do to Get Country Back? Have a Little Interfaith.
John Kasich RNS
The Impossible Task of Defining Religion
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Faith is a Muscle — Exercise it Daily
Fred Pry RealClearReligion


Thursday, April 10
Dear Woke Left: Hands Off Jeanne d’Arc!
Hélène de Lauzun The European Conservative
China Tightens Control Over Foreign Religious Activity
Malo Tresca La Croix
Taliban Arrest Men for Having Wrong Hairstyle, Skipping Mosque
AP News
King Charles, Queen Camilla Meet Pope Francis at Vatican
Cindy Wooden OSV
Canceling Easter
Nasser Hussain First Things
This Passover, I’m Reflecting on Jewish Liberation Theology
Sojourners
Religious Liberty, Putin, and Lukashenko
Filip Styczynski Providence
Spiritual Practices for Public Leadership
Andy Crouch Comment
The Exodus is Jews' Foundational Story
Ofek Meir The Jerusalem Post
To Sin Or Not To Sin: Shakespeare’s Vision Of God And Man
Religion Unplugged
Why Palestinian Christians Feel Betrayed by American Christians
New York Times
Institutions Don’t Maintain Themselves
James Diddams Christianity Today
Whither Methodists & Baptists?
Mark Tooley Juicy Ecumenism
Building Community to Break the Silence of Loneliness
Patti Garibay RCReligion
Group Aims to Countersue After SPLC Dragged It Through 9 Years
Daily Signal


Friday, April 11
I Kept My Freedom in Hamas’s Captivity
Agam Berger Wall Street Journal
8 Days That Changed The World
Jentezen Franklin RealClearReligion
Casting Call
Jack Fowler Philanthropy Daily
Jesus’ Resurrection: The Conquering of Sin and the Death of Death
RCReligion
The American Catholic Giving Crisis
Evan Holguin Angelus News
A Christian at Passover
R.R. Reno First Things
A Contentious Conclave?
Massimo Faggioli Commonweal
Christ’s Passion Is More Than a (Strong) Feeling
David Maddalena Christianity Today
Attaining and Forfeiting Adam’s Immortality at Sinai
Joel Kaminsky TheTorah.com
Passover: Long Division and a Short Memory
Ruthie Blum Jewish News Syndicate
Israelis Mark Another Passover Hoping for Gaza Captives to be Freed
AP News
How Vance, a ‘Baby Catholic,’ Stumbled into Clash With Pope
Washington Post
A Deadly Earthquake Rocks a Pillar of a Buddhist Nation: Its Monks
NY Times
The Realism of Religion
John Gray New Statesman
In Win for Faith Groups, Judge Rules Trump Must Admit Some Refugees
RNS
Five Current U.S. Protestant Political Outlooks
Mark Tooley Juicy Ecumenism
The Seven Factors of Awakening
Dawn Mauricio et al Lion’s Roar
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