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More than 300 faith communities have lost access to grant funds that were intended to plant trees in disadvantaged urban communities, environmental faith leaders who managed the grants told RNS.

"If this causes chaos, so be it. The more chaos there is in American society, the more people will be ready and willing to hand over the government to me. Have faith, Tom, I am here to save you."

Faith groups have long received government grants to feed the hungry, respond to disasters and assist those in need, but recent comments from Trump administration officials have cast such grants in a bad light.

The testimonies submitted to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith during the Vatican's Second Commission on Women and the Diaconate (Feb. 3-7) showed, advocates of women's ordination say, how urgent the community's needs for deacons can be and how women are ready to fill them. 

President Donald Trump is the epitome of a destroyer who knows what he hates but has no idea how to build anything beautiful. He has greater joy in firing people than mentoring them.

The speech came as the Trump administration, just 2 weeks old, is already facing lawsuits arguing that it violated the religious freedom of Christians in the U.S.

Using a clause in the food bank's bylaws, Archbishop Gregory Aymond fired the longtime executive director, Natalie Jayroe, and several board members of Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana last week, including the board chair, and installed the archdiocese's chief financial officer as the interim CEO.

Airport chaplain Nace Lanier, among the first to respond to the midair collision near Washington's airport, joined a team to holistically care for the hurting and confused."

While the pope is acting on his desire to include women in administrative positions in the church, he seems to have turned a deaf ear to calls for women in ministry. The stumbling block seems to be his view of women.

George Cardinal Pell: Pax Invictis, by journalist Tess Livingstone, delves into the remarkable highs and harrowing lows of Pell's life, from his upbringing outside of Melbourne to his growing faith and intellectual curiosity that would earn him the role of archbishop of Melbourne.

Vice President JD Vance has done what the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have been incapable of doing: He has made their position on migrants and refugees national news.

Praying for the president does not mean that you endorse everything he says and does. Prayer means that you are asking God to direct him to paths of justice and peace, to give him the wisdom necessary to do his job.

In this area’s matrilineal culture, women have taken on new responsibilities in Catholic churches in the region, acting as catechists, leading parish councils and shaping pastoral life as spiritual counselors.

 "The people who are in danger are the people who fear for their lives and their livelihoods," Budde said in an interview. "That’s where the focus should be."

President Donald Trump attended the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning (Jan. 21), finishing off the festivities marking the beginning of his second term with an interfaith service filled with prayers and hymns — and a sermon that offered a religious challenge to his administration’s stated goals.

A few hours after his second inauguration address on Monday, Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Denali to Mount McKinley.

Turning 80, as I do this month, I can no longer kid myself that death is a distant reality. While the temptation is to look back on regrets in my life, I am forcing myself to reflect on what I should be thankful for.

Over two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of minors, according to a new report released Wednesday (Jan. 15) by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

On Monday, the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and the multifaith community organizing group Faith in Action held a day of prayer and dialogue with immigrant families at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church.

The Los Angeles fire is the kind of crisis that also is an opportunity to do something dramatic.