Fighting Irish The US Catholic bishops spent the past year condemning the Trump administration’s immigration policies, straying from the abortion issue as the “preeminent priority” of their political engagement. But after a pro-choice professor was named to a leadership position at the University of Notre Dame last month, the prelates’ pushback showed that abortion is still the ultimate red line. Top Stories (RNS) — Catholic bishops, Notre Dame students and alumni and other anti-abortion Catholics had vocally opposed the appointment since it was announced Jan. 8.  (RNS) — Fares Abraham worries that Palestinian Christian communities across the Middle East, but especially in the West Bank, are in danger of disappearing.  (RNS) — The settlement will signal to public schools that parents should have ‘the final say’ on their children’s education, wrote Eric Baxter, the plaintiffs’ attorney.  (RNS) — ‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S. Opinion (RNS) — How are Muslims making the most of this holy time without giving in to elevated worry and fear?  (The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. ICYMI (RNS) — Black Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated to consider nonrelatives a part of their families.  (RNS) — Muslim advocates have warned that recent Islamophobic rhetoric from national political leaders can make targets of community members and their houses of worship. | 
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