RealClearReligion Week of May 19, 2025 Archives

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Monday, May 19
Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo
NYTimes
Vance, Rubio Meet With Pope in Push to Reset Relations With Vatican
Wash Post
Homily of Pope Leo XIV During Mass of Inauguration of Petrine Ministry
OSV
'The Pope is Peruvian!' How 2 Decades in South America Shaped Leo
NCReporter
Isaiah’s Greatest Hits
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
When Politics and Faith Collide
Robert P. George Deseret News
Do Jews Fantasize About the Afterlife?
Jeffrey Salkin Religion News Service
Paradox Lost
Raoul Wootliff Times of Israel
Where Will Leo XIV Stand on War?
Marc Livecche Providence
The Nicene Church Disappeared from Nicaea
Daniel Silliman Christianity Today
MAGA Christians Have a Right to Practice Their Faith — But So Do I
Sojourners
Being Good Bankers
Casey Chalk Crisis
100 Yrs After Canonization, St. Thérèse’s ‘Little Way’ Still Guides Hearts
CNA


Tuesday, May 20
Understanding Nicaea 1700 Years Later: An Annotated Guide
Mere Orthodoxy
Trump Says Vatican Interested in Hosting Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks
OSV
JD Vance Gives Pope Leo XIV a Trump Invitation to Visit the US
AP News
One Catholic’s Hope for the New Pope
David P. Deavel AMAC
Chicago Archdiocese to Celebrate Pope Leo XIV with Mass at Rate Field
CT
“Authority is Service”: Grateful for Francis, Hopeful for Leo XIV
Millennial
‍The Pope Who Foresaw the Horrors of Communism‍
J. Miltimore Civitas Institute
A Sequel to ‘Rerum Novarum’?
Anthony Annett Commonweal
Paglia Replaced at JPII institute
The Pillar The Pillar
Christianity & Democracy
Mark Tooley Juicy Ecumenism
I Searched the World’s Holiest Places for a God
Tishani Doshi The New York Times
This Is Your Priest on Drugs
Michael Pollan The New Yorker
SCOTUS May Broaden Religious Rights in Looming Rulings
John Kruzel Reuters
Churches Hope to Tap the Power of Pickleball
Bob Smietana Religion News Service
Neocons to Nat Cons: Shifting Editorial Positions at First Things
Providence


Wednesday, May 21
New Pope, Old Problem: Will Leo XIV Resist Tyranny?
Brian T. Kennedy Blaze Media
Could Pope Leo Actually Renounce His American Citizenship?
The Pillar
Pope Leo Calls for Aid to Gaza, End to Hostilities in First General Audience
AP
Christian Love, Puritan-Style
C. Bradley Thompson The Redneck Intellectual
Wikipedia’s War on Truth: The Fight Against Bias Toward Israel
Jewish Journal
Why We Must Deal with Darwinism
John Zmirak Chronicles
JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
Ross Douthat NYT
The Moral Philosophy of Resistance to Tyranny
Miguel Faria RealClearReligion
The Creeping Dangers of AI: A Jewish Perspective
Jewish News Syndicate
‘We Are to Exist, Not to Live’
Irina Velitskaya Commentary
Liberty to Pay Jerry Falwell Jr. $15 Million in Settlement
Michael Gryboski CP
Sep. of Church & State Is Not an Argument Against School Choice
Acton Institute
Christians in Nigeria Face Extremist Attacks
Ashley Lindsay Plough
The Not At All Secret History of Nicaea
Susannah Black Roberts Mere Orthodoxy
The Hidden Victims of Addiction: What Kids Need Most From Us
Fred Pry RCR


Thursday, May 22
Pagan Signs
Daniel Whyte IV Mere Orthodoxy
Nicaea and Augustine, Antidotes for Our Age
Carl R. Trueman First Things
Pope Leo’s Doctoral Dissertation: Thoughts on Power and Authority
NYTimes
New Orleans Archdiocese Agrees to Pay Nearly $180M to Victims of Abuse
AP
Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Shot Dead Outside D.C. Jewish Museum
NBC
Catholic U. Layoffs Aim to Stabilize Budget Ahead of ‘Demographic Cliff’
Pillar
Pope AI: Leo XIV and ‘New Things’ of Artificial Intelligence
M. Severance Acton
Jewish Law is Clear: Religious Values Come Before Military Objectives
ToI
What My Screen Time Exposed About Our Spiritual Crisis
R. King R. Unplugged
How to Be Resilient in Tough Times
Shauna Shapiro Lion’s Roar
Joe Rogan is 'Attending Church' Consistently, Apologist Wes Huff Reveals
CPost
Meet the Evangelical Abolitionists Who Can Guide Today’s Church
CToday


Friday, May 23
Memorial Day and Military Prayers
Jerry Newcombe RealClearReligion
Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Inverts Biblical Values
Adam Russell Taylor Sojourners
SCOTUS Deadlocks, Blocking Creation of First Religious Public School
WaPo
You Were Not Made for Comfort, You Were Made for Greatness
K. Roberts TMC
Bridge Builder
Austen Ivereigh Commonweal
Defining How Pastors, Elders, and Church Staff Work Together
Mere Orthodoxy
In Gaza, Empty Markets and Unaffordable Canned Lentils
Jill Nelson CToday
Prayer Service at Pentagon Sparks Religious Freedom Debate
K. Dallas Deseret
People Long to Believe, Both Inside and Outside Religion
Lauren Jackson NYTimes
Iran’s Takeover of Iraq Threatens Mass Christian Exodus
Providence
The Love of God Is Gruesome
Kurt Armstrong Comment
5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Church Leaders Reflect
Adelle M. Banks RNS
Jewish Groups React to Two Israeli DC Embassy Staffers Killed
Jewish Journal
Will SCOTUS Greenlight the Nation’s First Religious Charter School?
Civitas
Rupnik and Gaudí: A Tale of Two Virtues
Daniel B. Gallagher National Catholic Register
Pope Francis’ Favorite Dystopian Novel
John J. Miller Wall Street Journal
Zionism, Jew-Hatred, and Israel’s Independence Day
Jonathon Van Maren Euro Con
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