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Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

Senate Bill 114, sponsored by Sen. Bob Phalen, R-Lindsay, was indefinitely postponed after failing to garner enough support during second reading.

Senate Bill 114 would require public school trustees to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom in every public school in Montana.

Jim Elliott writes, "They may have escaped intolerance directed at their own beliefs, but they managed to develop a different type of religious intolerance of their own."

The Idaho Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would let counselors and therapists refuse care that conflicts with their “sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical principles.”

David Daniels writes, "Evangelical Christians and other religious groups have aligned themselves with Trump and his acts of corruption. In doing so, Evangelicals are placing themselves in contradiction to Jesus."

St. Michael's Church, donated by the Helena Diocese around 1989, still contains many features carved by Brother William Claessens in 1863.

In a letter to the Great Falls Republican, the Montana Jewish Project said harmful tropes like the one he reposted were used as a justification for the mass murder of Jews, which “horrifically reached its apotheosis in the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were killed.”

If these trends continue over the next 30 to 40 years, the number of people who are unaffiliated with a religion could outnumber the religious population for the first time in American history by 2060, according to Pew Research Center.

David James writes, "Mike Johnson's interpretation of the teachings of peace, love, and tolerance of Jesus Christ has led the Republicans to detest and scapegoat millions of Americans."