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This post exposes recent incendiary political discourse as part of America's retributive theology and culture. It then shares the restorative theological solution.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — GOP representatives, who seem to be taking their cues from deeply conservative Catholic groups that vow to "#defund the bishops," plan to cut funding to a DHS program that supports Catholic relief centers at the United States' Southern border.

Just how conservative is the Catholic Church? So conservative that, when Pope Francis recently said that homosexuality is a sin but not a crime, observers (correctly) took that for progress. The connection between Catholicism and conservatism runs deep. It goes back to at least the Counter-Reformation, when the church had to defend the religious status quo in Christian Europe against Protestants’ radical criticisms of its priests, its hierarchy and its doctrines. In its day, the Catholic Churc...

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Turning Point USA — the right-wing powerhouse run by Charlie Kirk — has recently pivoted to Christian nationalism.

In “Playing God,” the journalist Mary Jo McConahay argues that an alliance of extremely conservative bishops and Catholic activists is exerting a profound impact on our national politics.

Materials the House Jan. 6 committee released show a deeper link between Christian nationalism and the insurrection than revealed in its final report.

How an extreme transformation in American religion poses an existential threat to our democracy

The Justice Department began its case by telling the jury that five members of the far-right pro-Trump group had led scores of others in a coordinated attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Who Are the Christian Nationalists? A Taxonomy for the Post-Jan. 6 World. A guide to emerging Christian nationalist voices. (RNS)—“Christian nationalist” once summoned images of fiery extremists — stark racists concerned with keeping immigrants out of the United States or...