Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland over the FBI’s arrest of a Catholic pro-life father during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
The Catholic bishop of Tyler, Texas, denounced President Joe Biden's "fake Catholicism" and called on the Vatican to weigh in after the president said Pope Francis and some bishops did not oppose taxpayer funding for abortion.
Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
118th Congress overwhelmingly Christian at 88%, compared to 63% of general US population; Protestants at 57%, Catholics at 28%; 99% of incoming Republican Congress members Christian compared to 76% of Democrats; minority faiths including Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists equally represented in Congress as general population at 1% or less.
FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed during a Senate hearing Thursday that communist Chinese agents have been setting up illegal "police stations" on American soil and targeting critics of Xi Jinping's genocidal regime.