Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, and the pope have tangled sharply over migration and the Trump administration's plans to deport migrants en masse.

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush addresses some of the biggest threats to pluralistic religious freedom and democracy ...

Taken together, these findings suggest that expressing concern for anti-Christian bias can be interpreted as signaling allegiance to white people – without the social cost of being accused of racism.