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Estimates of how many Christians were killed under the Bolsheviks are not presented as a single, agreed total in the sources provided; reporting documents mass closures, imprisonments, and targeted ex...
President Biden regularly attended Mass and other church services during his presidency, with multiple documented public appearances at Holy Trinity in Washington and St. Joseph on the Brandywine in D...
The available reporting shows no single “official stance” of the Catholic Church that directly addresses the full range of political positions advanced by Charlie Kirk; instead, Catholic outlets and l...
The primary canonical framework for married candidates to the Eastern Catholic priesthood is the longstanding Eastern tradition that permits ordaining married men (with bishops remaining celibate) and...
Candace Owens has publicly announced and discussed her conversion from a Reformed Evangelical Protestant background to Roman Catholicism across multiple outlets and social posts; several reports say s...
Charlie Kirk’s engagement with Catholicism is portrayed inconsistently across recent reporting: some Catholic leaders praised his evangelistic style and openness to Catholic thought, while other Catho...
Conservative Christian critics charge Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ with reconfiguring Christology in ways they say undermine the historic, soteriological portrait of Jesus—calling his book “her...
Barack Obama has publicly described his religious journey and many elements of his faith — saying he is a “Christian by choice,” describing a move from skepticism to active faith in Chicago’s Trinity ...
Barack Obama says he became a Christian “by choice” as an adult and was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ; multiple profiles and fact-checkers summarize that he “embraced Christianity” after...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) promotes small-government, pro-market, and culturally conservative activism on over 3,500 campuses and runs faith-oriented initiatives that explicitly seek to “eliminate woke...
Candace Owens publicly converted from Reformed Evangelical Protestantism to Roman Catholicism in April 2024, completing a baptism at the Brompton Oratory in London, and multiple outlets reported and a...
Richard Rohr’s central claim in The Universal Christ is that “Christ” is a cosmic, universal presence that transcends and includes the particular historical person of Jesus — a move many readers find ...
Yes — a pope who chose the regnal name Leo XIV exists in recent Catholic history: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope in May 2025 and took the name Leo XIV, becoming the 267th Bishop of R...
Several academic theologians and established Christian commentators have published formal critiques or evaluations of Richard Rohr’s theology—especially his book The Universal Christ—and many critique...
Pope Leo’s public remarks about Donald Trump were prompted mainly by the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, mass deportations and rhetoric around migrants — comments the pope described as “inh...
Catholics are a small religious minority in Russia — various reports put Catholics at a fraction of the population (Wikipedia cites about 773,000, roughly 0.5% as of a 2016 pontifical yearbook) and ch...
Bishop Robert Barron and Charlie (or Russell/Charlie) Kirk occupy very different intellectual and moral spaces in the recent coverage: Barron is framed as a Catholic bishop wrestling with how to integ...
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was publicly exploring Catholic ideas, has been praised by Bishop Robert Barron as an “apostle of civil discourse” and a “passionate Christian,” framing Kirk’...