Katherine Kelaidis

3 weeks ago | publicseminar.org | David Williams |John Stoehr |Justin Joque |Katherine Kelaidis

The Raising of Lazarus (1619) | Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public DomainElon Musk may or may not be “the world’s richest man” these days, depending on the wildly fluctuating value of his Tesla car company, a target for those protesting Musk’s “move fast, break stuff” approach to downsizing the federal bureaucracy through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Katherine Kelaidis

Less than a week after becoming vice president, JD Vance, only the second Catholic to hold the office, had a very public break with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Without evidence, the second-in-command accused the US Conference of Catholic Bishops of settling “illegal immigrants” in order to access federal funds.

3 weeks ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Katherine Kelaidis |David Adams

KATHERINE KELAIDIS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the arrest of the Istanbul mayor is aimed at quelling an increasingly vocal political opposition…Via RNSEarlier this month, the now-former mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested on corruption charges along with 100 other opposition leaders.

3 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Katherine Kelaidis

(RNS) — Earlier this month, the now-former mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was arrested on corruption charges along with 100 other opposition leaders. The arrests have provoked massive demonstrations across the country, not least because many Turks believe the arrests are a thinly veiled crackdown by Turkish strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the increasingly popular opposition as a 2028 general election approaches. İmamoğlu is by far the most prominent of those opposition figures.

4 weeks ago | sojo.net | Katherine Kelaidis

AT TIMES, WHITE HOUSE press secretary Karoline Leavitt proudly wears a gold cross when meeting with the press pool. Many assume she emerges from the heart of right-wing American evangelicalism. But they would be wrong. Leavitt emerges from the heart of right-wing American Catholicism. While we have been focused on the fusion of evangelical Christianity and Far Right nationalism, we’ve missed how Christian nationalism has risen in Catholic and Orthodox traditions.