According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center, Americans' views of the Supreme Court are historically low, marked by a dramatic decline in favorability among Democrats, an increase in favorability among Republicans and an unprecedented level of political polarization, with a 45 percentage point gap between parties in favorable views, the widest in 35 years of polling.
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.
The percentage of Christians in the United States is projected to decrease to between 35% and 54% by 2070, while the percentage of religiously unaffiliated individuals is expected to increase to between 34% and 52%, according to the Pew Research Center's hypothetical scenarios about the future of religion in the country.
A growing number of parents oppose vaccine mandates as a precondition for public school attendance, and interest among adults in receiving COVID-19 booster shots is waning, according to a national poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
Pope Francis on Monday said he sees “still greater omens of greater destruction and desolation” in the world and called on people “to put aside selfishness, indifference and antagonism.”
