WATCH: Tech-savvy art historian Andrew Tallon uses lasers to unlock the builders' secrets behind the construction of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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For the first time since the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, Haarlem bore witness to a liturgical procession of relics, ...

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Yet, for me, as a churchgoing Episcopalian, the real controversy at the Washington National Cathedral wasn’t what Budde said to President Donald Trump from the pulpit of the French Gothic ...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde arrives as President Donald Trump looks on during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Despite its name, the Washington National Cathedral has no formal connection to and receives no direct support from the federal government. But it does maintain a special place in the federal sphere.

The National Cathedral, like Washington itself, is progressive and political. It nonetheless came as a surprise that while I sat at the cathedral café after observing services on Dec. 29, ...