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Retired Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick poses for a portrait after speaking about his trip to the Central African Republic during an interview at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Hyattsville, Md., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Cardinal McCarrick, former D.C. archbishop, removed from ministry over 'credible' sex abuse claim

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This April 13, 2017 image shows the entrance to the clock tower at the Old Post Office, a historic building in Washington D.C., where the Trump International Hotel is located. The clock tower is operated by the National Park Service and was recently reopened to the public for tours. (AP Photos/Beth J. Harpaz)

Clergymen push D.C. alcohol board to revoke Trump hotel's license over president's poor 'character'

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said social science has shown consistently that children fare best when they are raised by a mother and father who stay together throughout the child's upbringing. (Associated Press)

Blue states raising barriers to faith-based adoptions

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

American Medical Association condemns Trump family separation policy at the border

Pope Francis drinks some mate offered by a pilgrim as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis denounces Trump's family separation immigration policy

"There's no need for legislation," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "Mr. President, you started it, you can stop it, plain and simple." (Associated Press)

Democrats in no rush to help Trump, GOP clean up family separation mess

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference opposing a proposal to place immigrant children separated from their parents at the border in a facility just east of downtown, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Youngest migrants held in 'tender age' shelters: APNewsBreak

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they head to a meeting of House Republicans to discuss a GOP immigration bill at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump blesses House Republicans' new compromise immigration bill

In this Saturday, June 16, 2018, photo, Chris Pratt accepts the generation award at the MTV Movie and TV Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Chris Pratt shares the Gospel at the MTV Awards

President Donald Trump speaks at a National Space Council meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 18, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Trump marks Juneteenth celebration as a reminder that 'all people are created equal'

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as he is introduced to speak at the National Sheriffs' Association convention in New Orleans, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

600 members of Jeff Sessions' church sign formal complaint against him

In this Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, a man plays a game at the Paris Games Week in Paris. The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing its young players. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

WHO's video 'gaming disorder' euphemism for bad parenting

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings waits to speak at a news conference Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Dallas. The first contacts of the first Dallas Ebola infection are now cleared of the potential of developing the disease. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

'Divisive' billboard proclaiming 'America is a Christian nation' removed in Dallas

In this file photo, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen discusses a SPLC federal lawsuit against the Alabama Accountability Act during a press conference in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) **FILE**

Southern Poverty Law Center's settlement with 'extremist' organization dings credibility

A newly retired Muslim professor at the University of Connecticut was caught on camera last year ordering students to remove their shoes and praise Allah before entering his office. (YouTube/@JihadWatchVideo)

Muslim professor made students remove shoes, praise Allah before entering office

In this Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, a man plays a game at the Paris Games Week in Paris. The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing its young players. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

WHO classifies compulsive gaming as a disorder

First lady Melania Trump, center, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, applauds as President Donald Trump speaks to employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

First lady Melania Trump 'hates' to see families separated; Laura Bush calls policy 'cruel'

The Open Arms kids in Nats gear. The community relations department was kind to enough to give us some shirts a few years ago.

Nationals' Solis finds perspective in South African orphanage

Vendors gather Saturday under a festival tent on the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Avenue SE to raise awareness about Juneteenth, community-building and faith organizations in D.C. (Darla Dunning / The Washington Times)

Juneteenth Festival in Southeast draws crowd of 500 people

Illustration on video game violence by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Taking aim at young targets

Illustration on world population growth by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The discontent of civilization

Donald Trump and his family, shortly after he announced his intention to run for president on June 16, 2015. (Associated Press)

Trump says fathers display 'fundamental American values of hard work and dedication'

The Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) claims a family in Rochester, Minnesota, was discriminated against during a Ramadan visit to Red Lobster. (Image: Twitter, Red Lobster)

Red Lobster fights back against Ramadan discrimination claim: 'We welcome everyone'

A Palestinian man wearing as a clown presents candies to Muslim girls during Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Eastern Gaza City, Friday, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza residents pray near Israel, as Muslims mark major feast

Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican, posted a video of himself talking to a constituent and saying that while separation happens any time a parent is sent to jail, it should be rare in immigration cases. "Keep families together as much as we can possible keep families together for as long as we can," he said. (Associated Press)

Congressional Republicans break from Trump on zero-tolerance border policy

In this May 22, 2018, file photo, a researcher in Berlin, Germany, handles a petri dish while observing a CRISPR/Cas9 process through a stereomicroscope at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine. (Photo by: Gregor Fischer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Gene-edited 'designer babies' offer miracle cures, questionable ethics

Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to attend his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Study finds religious people have longer life spans than atheists

Illustration on anti-Christian bias by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Protecting all Americans from anti-religious hostility

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about religious liberty at the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center's annual leadership mission Wednesday, June 13, 2018, in Washington. Sessions announced that the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, alleging that the borough and its zoning board violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Valley Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in Woodcliff Lake, to build a new place of worship on its land in the borough. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sessions introduces effort to prevent discrimination against religious groups

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Thomas Homan, front, shakes hands with mounted Border Patrol agents during a news conference along the border Monday, May 7, 2018, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Backdoor to illegal immigration closing: U.S. clears more asylum cases than it receives in May

A Penn State student walks in the rain past Old Main on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

College students want due process in sexual misconduct cases, says survey

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Michelle Wolf arrives at the 6th Annual Hilarity For Charity Los Angeles Variety Show at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

A Wolf at the White House Correspondents Dinner

A Christian worshipper attends the Christmas mass at the Saint Joseph Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic church, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017. Iranian Christians are a minority and recognized by the constitution in the Muslim country and are represented in the parliament. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

How Christmas changed the world

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., takes his seat before the start of a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Franks says in a statement that he never physically intimidated, coerced or attempted to have any sexual contact with any member of his congressional staff. Instead, he says, the dispute resulted from a discussion of surrogacy. Franks and his wife have 3-year-old twins who were conceived through surrogacy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rep. Trent Franks makes resignation immediate in latest Capitol Hill sexual harassment scandal

Denzel on fatherhood, family values

The Museum of the Bible opens Friday at a 430,000-square-foot site just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol. (Museum of the Bible)

Newest museum in nation's capital will 'tell the biography of the Bible'

Boy Scouts of America leaders say they will start developing the next generation of female leaders and allow families to participate in outdoor activities together. (Associated Press/File)

As Boy Scouts welcome girls, rival group sees expansion of 'war on boys'

The downward trend affected the white population of evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics. (Associated Press/File)

White Christians represent minority of U.S. population, but religious right says it still has might

Illustration on transsexuals in the military by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Transforming the military, one tweet at a time

Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Washington on May 11, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pence says ISIS is guilty of genocide against Christians

A state worker unfurls a rainbow flag in front of the Washington state Capitol to prepare it to be raised and then lowered to half-staff to mark last weekend's mass shooting at a central Florida nightclub, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Olympia, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee and members from the LGBT community later raised the flag in honor of Gay Pride month, before it was lowered. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside Pulse, a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, leaving at least 49 people dead in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Appeals court: 1964 Civil Rights Act protects lesbian, gay employees from workplace bias

In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom talk after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, a national organization that brings together Muslim and Jewish women, organized the gathering as part of the organization's response to President Donald Trump's travel ban. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

US Muslims and Jews strengthen bonds amid acts of bigotry

White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House says transgender students are a states' rights issue

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