Man pleads guilty to killing Catholic priest who was stabbed in his rectory in Nebraska

Cardinal Brislin joins African clergy in calling Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Drawing on Africa’s experience of apartheid, genocide and war, Cardinal Stephen Brislin and nine other Catholic clergy say Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide — and argue silence is no longer an option.

Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat

(The Conversation) — Two political scientists explain why Christian nationalist beliefs endure.

Once shaped by court rituals, China’s imperial cuisine lives on today

BEIJING (AP) — Imperial cuisine encompasses the meals emperors ate daily and the feasts their courts held throughout the year.

A Muslim educator and a rabbi: One ideology threatens us both

(RNS) — White supremacy does not distinguish between the communities it seeks to intimidate. Our resistance shouldn’t distinguish between them, either.

New book ‘A Nation Wrestles With God’ traces religious dialogue through our history

(RNS) — Wrestling — with the divine, with morality — might well be America’s most sustained pastime.