RealClearReligion Week of April 6, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 6
On Easter, Pope Delivers Commanding Message of Peace to World at War
WP
Is Christianity Making a Comeback?
Lauren Jackson The New York Times
Record People Joined Latter-Day Saints in 2025
Tad Walch Deseret News
Trump Says ‘America Needs God’ in Good Friday Message
Jasmine Baehr Fox News
Trading Idol of Certainty for Liberty of Christ
William Nardi Zeale
Trump Invokes Religious Rhetoric in Praise of Iran Rescue
Maria Tsvetkova Reuters
Easter, Passover, and Artemis II
Lauren Jackson The New York Times
After Court Battles, Clergy Visit ICE Detainees in Illinois and Minnesota
RNS
Easter and the Shroud of Turin
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot
Nathan Dufour Oglesby Commonweal
The Rebellious Act of Rolling Back the Stone
Richard Mouw Christianity Today
Is Easter a Pagan Holiday?
John Stonestreet Christian Post
The War to End All Wars Was Won on a Cross
Michael Sobolik Providence


Tuesday, April 7
The American Pope and the American President
Paul Kengor Crisis
Embracing a Sacred Tension
Brian Croft Christianity Today
What Christians Get Wrong About AI
Isaac Willour Acton Institute
America's New Catholics, By the Numbers
Brendan Hodge The Pillar
Donald Trump’s Easter Clash of Hell and Holiness
Bob Smietana & Fiona Murphy RNS
Women Proclaimed First Resurrection But Rarely Lead Churches
R. Unplugged
The Return of the Patron
Jan C. Bentz The Catholic Herald
Trump's Easter Post Condemned as "Utter Disdain for Religion"
Newsweek


Wednesday, April 8
Ethics of Rhetoric in Times of War
R. R. Reno First Things
Pope Says Trump's Threat to Destroy Iranian Civilization 'Unacceptable'
AP
Why Catholic Nuns are Suing Over Transgender Care, Religious Freedom
USAT
Are Young Men Really Returning to the Catholic Church?
Joel Mathis The Week
Evangelicals Amplify Trump's Religious Framing of Iran War
Reuters
Bible Stories Would Be Required Reading in Texas Public Schools
CBS News
Who Needs Looksmaxxing When You’ve Got Catholicmaxxing?
The Guardian
Augustine: The Bad Boy Who Rewired Christianity
J. Mac Ghlionn Religion Unplugged
Faith Has Always Gone to Space. Artemis II Shows How It's Changed.
RNS
King Charles Is Failing to Defend the Faith
Garrett Exner Providence
What Happened in Nigeria’s Deadly Holy Week?
Luke Coppen The Pillar
Reliving the Passover Seder In Our Times
Yisrael Medad The Jerusalem Post
A Project to Save Rural Synagogues Grows From Maine to Montana
AP News
Tucker Carlson Attacks Trump Over Religion
Alex Swoyer Washington Times


Thursday, April 9
Iran War’s “Bad Theology?”
Mark Tooley Providence
Faith Among Young People Surges, Providing a Missing Anchor
AM Spectator
Entertaining Angels in Transit
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
It Was Never About the Victims
Pamela Paresky Jewish Journal
Pope Leo XIV Goes to War
William McGurn Wall Street Journal
A Time to Look to the Heavens
The Editors National Catholic Register
Looking for the Real Catholic Church in New York City
Jillian Parks First Things
The Bible Doesn’t Justify War Crimes
Russell Moore Christianity Today
Muslims Shouldn’t Have to Assimilate to Belong
Shadi Hamid Washington Post
How Cool the Wind
Matthew Walther The Lamp Magazine


Friday, April 10
Religion Belongs in American History Class
Todd Weiler Wall Street Journal
From 'BuddhaBot' to $1.99 Chats With AI Jesus
Krysta Fauria et al AP News
The Cold War Splitting American Catholics
Anne Hendershott Crisis
The Praying Woman of NATO
Laura Fabrycky Comment
Churches Worldwide Join Pope Prayer Vigil For Peace on April 11
EWTN News
The Pews Prepared the Way
Cole Claybourn & Joshua Claybourn Providence
The Merchant Who Became a Saint
Jan C. Bentz Acton Institute
Almost a Blasphemy
Kevin Gallagher Commonweal
Constant Tension and Sudden Loss of Aaron’s Sons
Naomi Graetz Times of Israel
Dorothy Day’s Complicated Cause for Sainthood
S. V. Arbogast First Things
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