Trump’s meeting with Orthodox Christian patriarch sows confusion

US Catholic bishops to vote on updating child sexual abuse guidelines

(RNS) — The potential revisions include new language that emphasizes ‘the presumption of innocence’ for accused priests. 

How do we confront hatred in rock music?

(RNS) — Something was going on beneath the music. It was dark and sinister, and we ignored it.

What Pope Leo’s AI encyclical means for Catholic colleges and universities

(RNS) — Our institutions are at risk of becoming transactional degree factories where students become dehumanized. 

US bishops signal closer ties to Pope Leo — while nudging Trump on immigration

(RNS) — Archbishop Paul Coakley’s repeated citations of the first U.S.-born pope may signal a closer relationship between the Vatican and U.S. church, though the meeting’s public agenda does not include any sessions dedicated to artificial intelligence or Leo’s first encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas.’

The country’s largest Protestant adoption agency is dropping LGBTQ couples — again

(RNS) — The reversal comes five years after the foster care and adoption agency first agreed to partner with LGBTQ couples.