Tuesday, June 17, 2025

RNS Morning Report - New Pew report shows Catholicism's deep roots and dire challenges in US life

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New Pew report shows Catholicism’s deep roots and dire challenges in US life

(RNS) — While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.
 

Supreme Court order gives religious organizations new chance to challenge New York abortion rule

The justices acted after the court unanimously ruled earlier in June that Wisconsin discriminated against a Catholic charity by forcing it to pay state unemployment taxes.
 

Meet the gay millennial priest on a mission to pull the Episcopal Church out of ‘free fall’

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (RNS) — The Rev. Charles Graves IV is part of a younger, more diverse generation of Episcopal priests who believes the denomination can thrive — as long as it continues to evolve.
 

What church do you attend? Maybe more than one, survey finds

(RNS) — Overall, besides worship services, participation in other religious activities and programs has increased or remained the same in the last five years.

 

 

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The LDS historical department just published an 1886 polygamy revelation

(RNS) — After denying that the 1886 pro-polygamy 'Taylor revelation' existed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly published it on Saturday.
 

Conflicted, disillusioned, disengaged: The unsettled center of Jewish student opinion after Oct. 7

(The Conversation) — Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war, some Jewish students have been vocal about support for Israel or for Palestinians. But many more have views that don’t fit into ‘either/or’ categories.

 

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At Sox’ stadium Mass, Chicago celebrates Pope Leo XIV, its native son

(RNS) — Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke on immigration and the undocumented in his ‘Sermon on the Mound.’
 

At Philadelphia’s ‘No Kings’ protest, faith leaders urge crowd to ‘rebuke hate’

PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — In a city known as the cradle of American democracy, an impassioned, hourslong protest filled the streets for a ‘No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance.’

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