How a mother’s love and Sikh wisdom are tackling a rare childhood disease

The US founders’ other revolutionary choice: Separating religion and government

(The Conversation) — European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.

Philippine devotees honor St. John the Baptist with a mud-covered display of faith

BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival is held annually in this village in Asia’s largest Catholic nation as devotees thank the local patron saint for miracles and fulfill vows made in prayer.

These traditionalist Catholics are defying Pope Leo XIV, and embracing their outsider status

The group, which celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and rejects the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church, is planning a highly organized, four-day, livestreamed extravaganza for the consecrations at its Swiss seminary — complete with a souvenir wine set offered to those attending.

Looking for the ruler Trump most resembles?

(RNS) — Try this Caesar.

As some praise Texas’ proposed ‘Judeo-Christian’ curriculum, rabbis say it dismisses Judaism

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — The phrase ‘Judeo-Christian’ was frequently heard this week in support of Texas’ revised public school curriculum, even as many Jewish testifiers distanced themselves from the term and the curriculum.