Pope Francis Seen Leaving Hospital 10 Days After Intestinal Surgery AP journalists saw a car with Francis sitting in the front passenger seat leaving Rome's Gemelli Polytechnic hospital on Wednesday morning. The Associated Press
Cornel West Has Announced He's Leaving Harvard And Says The School Has Lost Its Way In a resignation letter posted to Twitter on Monday, West says the university is suffering from "intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths." Deepa Shivaram
There Are 11,073 Muslims In Federal Prisons But Just 13 Chaplains To Minister To Them Muslims, the third-largest faith group in federal prisons, are significantly underrepresented among the chaplaincy, according to a recent Department of Justice report. Dalia Faheid
The Proportion Of White Christians In The U.S. Has Stopped Shrinking, New Study Finds For years, religion in America was changing rapidly: The proportion of white Christians was shrinking, largely replaced by people who have no religious affiliation. Now, those trends have plateaued. Becky Sullivan
She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier A new Canadian policy answers a 2015 call for government action. Danita Bilozaze hopes it means that no one will face the resistance she did to rescue her name from a history of forced assimilation. Emma Bowman
Nordstrom Partners With Luxury Hijab Brand NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with founder and CEO Hilal Ibrahim about her brand Henna & Hijabs. Nordstrom is now carrying her products.
After Debate On Biden's Abortion Views, Bishops Vote to Rethink Communion Rules The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has voted to move forward with a process that could call into question the eligibility of politicians like President Joe Biden to receive Communion. Sarah McCammon
U.S. Catholic Bishops Have Heated Debate Before End-Of-Week Vote On Communion U.S. Catholic bishops clashed virtually Thursday over whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should continue to receive Communion. The Associated Press
Supreme Court Sides With Religious Freedom In High Profile LGBTQ Rights Case The Supreme Court saw a case that pitted religious freedom against gay rights — and sided with the adoption agency that the city of Philadelphia wouldn't work with because they exclude LGBTQ couples.
America's Top Evangelical Group Is Deciding If They're Further Right Than Trump The Southern Baptist Convention meets this week in Nashville, bringing to the fore a host of controversial issues that threaten to cause a rift among the faithful. Jaclyn Diaz