RealClearReligion Week of January 5, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 5
Ken Burns Distorts the Founders’ Religious Beliefs
Dr. Kody W. Cooper Word on Fire
Death of a Eulogy
Matthew D. Love Christianity Today
Pope Expresses ‘Deep Concern’ After US Action in Venezuela
Elise Ann Allen Crux
Israeli Govt Accuses Mamdani of Antisemitism Over Canceled Orders
NYTimes
A ‘Bible Expert Guest Co-Writer’ Suggests New Year’s Resolutions
Townhall
Civil Society in the U.S. is Dead Man Walking
Kenneth Craycraft Catholic World Report
When Europe’s Churches Burn
Niwa Limbu The Catholic Herald
How Real is the Meaning?
Walter Russell Mead Providence
Icon or Idol?
Natalie Carnes Plough
How Did Anti-Zionism Become the New Antisemitism?
Jarrod Tanny Jewish Journal
Transmitting Faith Through Community
Soren Johnson Institute for Family Studies
Banning Public Prayer in Quebec
Rick Plasterer Juicy Ecumenism
Despair Not!
Dr. Ruth Wisse Mosaic
USAID Cut Their Funding, So These Non-Profits Got Creative
R. Unplugged


Tuesday, January 6
Pope Closes 2025 Holy Year With Critique of Consumerism, Xenophobia
AP
Why Are European Monarchs Turning Their Backs On Christianity?
Euro Con.
Is a Religious Revival Under Way in America?
Ryan Burge Deseret News
Job Satisfaction?
Rabbi Yossy Goldman Jewish News Syndicate
Rabbis After Google: Rethinking Jewish Leadership
Adam Gindea Jerusalem Post
Church Scandals Don’t Negate God’s Faithfulness
Myles Werntz Christianity Today
Epiphany in Bethlehem
Sarah Reardon First Things
With or Without Vatican Approval, SSPX May Consecrate Bishops
Cath. Herald
Charlotte Priests Submit Dubia to Vatican Over Liturgical Changes
The Pillar
Porn Star Gets Baptized; Questions About Her Sincerity Emerge
Ryan Foley CPost
Viral Holy Water Moment Behind Pittsburgh Steelers’ Big Win
R. Unplugged


Wednesday, January 7
American Democracy Needs Religion — Not Less
Andrew Fowler CT Mirror
Pope Leo XIV Signals Reforms Ahead With the Holy Year Over
Nicole Winfield AP
Trump Tells GOP To Be 'Flexible' on Abortion Restrictions
Bill Barrow AP News
Was Modern Science Born of Christianity?
John W. Farrell Commonweal
He Left the Pastorate. But He Hasn’t Given up on Religion.
Mia Staub CToday
We Need Catholic Just War Theory Now More Than Ever
Tobias Winright America
Why Do 250 Million Christians Celebrate Christmas on January 7?
Al Jazeera
Can Christians Be Patriots?
Michael Lucchese Providence
Antisemitism in China and its Impact on Israel and Jews
The Jerusalem Post
Bigger on the Inside Than the Outside
David Deavel Catholic World Report
Russell Shaw Remembered as ‘Giant of the Church’
Maria Wiering OSV News


Thursday, January 8
A Future for Confession
Ross Douthat The New York Times
China Detains Church Leaders as Crackdown on Religion Intensifies
WSJ
2 Dead, 6 Wounded in Shooting Outside LDS Church in Salt Lake City
SLT
The Govt's Idea of 'Judeo-Christianity' Doesn’t Sound Very Jewish
D. Segal RNS
Australia's Leader Announces Royal Commission Into Antisemitism
AP News
British Anti-Semitism Scandal That Was So Much Worse Than It Looked
Com.
The International Fight is Over a Home for Jewry
H. Teich Jewish News Syndicate
Truth Revealing
Andrew P.W. Bennett Comment
Against the Doctrine of Double Truth
Gerhard Cardinal Müller First Things
Pope Convenes Cardinals and Asks Their Priorities for 2 Yrs
Nicole Winfield Crux
So What If the Bible Doesn’t Mention Embryo Screening?
Brad East CToday
Women are Leaving the Church, But Let's Stop Justifying It
Ericka Andersen CPost
The Science of God, the God of Science
David Weinberger Acton Institute
Conservatives Must Not Abandon Human Rights to the Left
Providence


Friday, January 9
The MAGA-fication of the Rosary
Matthew Walther Wall Street Journal
Catholics Should Identify Neither as Liberal Nor Conservative
K. Craycraft FCM
'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams is Taking Pascal's Famous Bet
J. Graham Deseret
The Closure of the World's Oldest Monastery
D.P. Curtin RealClearReligion
Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — Just A Little Less Red
Ryan Burge Religion Unplugged
Sp. Bishops Will Allow Govt to Oversee Compensation For Abuse Victims
AP
Moses Always Knew He Was a Hebrew—and So Did Everyone Else
The Torah
Why Jews Mourn Jewish Strangers
Barry Finestone Times of Israel
Marxism, the False Gospel of the Modern World
Aiden Wirth Word on Fire
What Normalizing Antisemitism Looks Like
Jonathan S. Tobin Jewish News Syndicate
Will the U.S. Church Be Silent on Venezuela?
Adam Russell Taylor Sojourners
Pope Leo XIV Hopes for Annual Meetings With Cardinals
Edward Pentin NCRegister
Signs of Departure
Massimo Faggioli Commonweal
Goddity
Ephraim Radner First Things
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