The clergy's job is to challenge, to ruffle and to advocate for basic humanity, writes the founder and director of a center for progressive Jewish text study ...

The sermon’s duration was less than 15 minutes. Its theme—a call for unity grounded in faith at a time of political division—was hardly out of the norm for a post-inauguration service at Washington ...

A bishop who pleaded with U.S. president Donald Trump to have mercy on marginalized Americans has said she will not apologize after Trump lashed out at her on social media.

Mariann Edgar Budde serves in the Episcopal Church, which affirms the LGBTQ community. The Catholic Church does not allow women to serve as bishops.

President Donald Trump has suffered his first major legal loss as president before his first week is even finished, with a ...

The Catholic Church has its own history of prophetic voices using the moral authority of the priesthood to remind political leaders of the Christian precept of human dignity.

Bishop Budde is the latest champion in our winners of the week series. Bishop Budde and her respectful leadership couldn't have come at a better time. If you'll recall, the day after President Trump ...

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Bishop Mariann E. Budde, of the Episcopal Church, pleaded to Donald Trump to have "mercy" on immigrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who made waves this week for asking President Trump to “have mercy” on LGBTQ children and ...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he wants transgender children to “live in fear” of their own parents in response to a bishop asking Donald Trump to have “mercy” on LGBTQ+ people. Tuberville was ...

The president may not have approved of Mariann Edgar Budde's homily at the National Cathedral. But the bishop answered to a higher moral calling.