RealClearReligion Week of April 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 21
Pope Francis, Trailblazing Jesuit with a Heart for Poor, Dies at 88
America
Pope Francis Has Died. Here’s What Happens Next.
Cindy Wooden OSV News
Francis’s Death Leaves No Clear Front-Runner
Gaya Gupta et al Washington Post
Canonization of First Millennial Saint Postponed After Pope's Death
AP News
Trump Vows to Make America "More Religious" Than Ever Before
Newsweek
All the President’s Pastors: Who’s Advising Trump?
Harvest Prude Christianity Today
America Wants a God
Lauren Jackson The New York Times
Pope Meets With JD Vance After Criticism of Trump Administration
NYTimes
Resurrection Evidence? The Shroud of Turin
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
He Is Risen! But His Followers Still Suffer in Nigeria
David P. Deavel AMAC
The Wall of Separation Between Church and State
Miguel A. Faria RealClearReligion
Easter’s Global Hope: A Call for Recognition Amid Persecution
Arch. D’Souza RCR
Decision Day
Judge Phil Ginn RealClearReligion
Be Kind to Yourself
Pema Khandro Rinpoche Lion’s Roar
An Ascetic Way of Life in a World of Abundance
Dylan Pahman The Acton Institute


Tuesday, April 22
Pope Francis: Rest in Peace
Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion
Pope’s Funeral Set for April 26, Public Viewing April 23-25
Cindy Wooden OSV
Video: Trump Orders Flags to Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Pope Francis
NBC
135 Cardinals Will Elect Next Pope. Francis Picked 108 of Them.
RNS
Pope Francis Leaves Legacy as Environmental Conscience for World
NCReporter
Pope Francis was Disruptive. Now, Next Pope Must Clean Up 'Mess'
Fox News
Pope Francis, My Worst Protestant Nightmare
Carl Trueman First Things
Francis: The Legacy of a Stalled Reformer
Kaya Oakes Sojourners
Pope Never Visited Argentina. Some Blame its Volatile Politics
AP News
Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion
Lauren Jackson NYT
As Catholic Church Enters New Era, U.S. Members Push It Right
WSJ
You Can’t Earn Easter
B. D. McClay Commonweal
Why God Hides
Ross Byrd Mere Orthodoxy
Jews are the Canary in the AI Coalmine
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Times of Israel


Wednesday, April 23
What Happened to the Francis Revolution?
Philip Shenon The New York Times
The Pope Who Saw God in Queer Kids, Migrants, and the Poor
M. Vazquez RCR
Being There: Pope Francis’s Death and the Future of the Catholic Church
PD
The Jesuit Pope
R.R. Reno First Things
Could I Become a Christian in a Year?
Lamorna Ash The Guardian
The Dalai Lama’s Struggle For Tibet And Religious Survival
Religion Unplugged
As a Muslim, I Believe Inclusion Means Everyone
Ani Zonneveld RNS
A Dynamic Faith: The Story of Early Methodism, Part I
Juicy Ecumenism
Pope Francis: Reflecting on a Complicated History with Israel
Jewish Journal
The Netherlands is Dangerously Inverting Jewish Victimhood
Times of Israel
Interest in Buddhism Declines While Stoicism Soars
Doug Bates Ataraxia or Bust!
Requiem Aeternam: Pope Francis (1936–2025)
John C. Pinheiro et al Acton Institute
Faith, Stigma, And Healing
Reina Olmeda RealClearReligion
The Government, Nor NGO’s, are the Answer
Nick Vujicic RealClearReligion


Thursday, April 24
A Francis Admirer and a Francis Skeptic Debate the Pope’s Legacy
NYTimes
Meet the 'Papabile': The Likely Contenders to Become the Next Pope
RNS
The Cardinal Electors, By the Numbers
Brendan Hodge The Pillar
Retrospect on a Pontificate
George Weigel National Catholic Register
Pope Francis' Legacy on Women a Mixed Bag
Heidi Schlumpf NCReporter
Pope's Doctor Recounts Francis' Last Moments in Newspaper Interview
AP News
Pope Francis and the Vatican Deep State
Mary Ann Glendon First Things
The Entry into Darkness
Benedict Coleridge Commonweal
Citing Scripture for a Progressive Purpose
Alexander Riley Chronicles
The Left’s Vile Hitler-Trump Analogies Dishonor the Shoah
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS
One Thing Supreme Court Can Agree on is Disagreeing Over Religion
CNN
Vance Says He’ll Remember Pope Francis as ‘a Great Christian Pastor’
MSNBC


Friday, April 25
Should Charity Be Apolitical?
John Berry RealClearReligion
Francis in Full
Bishop Robert Barron First Things
Never Forget: Pope Francis on Covid
Paul Kengor Crisis
Good Teacher
César J. Baldelomar Commonweal
Pope Francis Was No Friend Of The Poor
Francis Menton Manhattan Contrarian
The Mental Health Crisis Ministers Struggle to Talk About
Christianity Today
Five Unusual Papal Burial Places
The Pillar
Heroism and the Holocaust
Seth Mandel Commentary
At Shops Around Vatican, Pope Francis was Regular Customer and Friend
AP
The Court Should Bless Religious Charters
Nicole Stelle Garnett Wall Street Journal
The Abuse Crisis is Still Roiling the Catholic Church
Chico Harlan Washington Post
Video: Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
Ezra Klein NYT
Gen Z is Finding Religion. Why?
Christian Paz Vox
Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History
Adam Laats The Atlantic
How Jews in Revolutionary War Helped Shape First Amendment
Times of Israel
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