Illegal immigration is being treated as a sacrilege because it seems to violate something that has been made into an idol: the status and the security of being American.
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Answering the call of the (real) king
Can we—in the middle of our current political crisis—still imagine how power ought to be used in service?
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Pope Leo’s message for the American church
Pope Leo’s responses to questions from Elise Ann Allen demonstrated a realistic understanding of the American church.
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Pro-choice politicians, Catholic teaching and the lessons we still can’t learn
The church had a fight over an award. But did anyone learn anything?
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Who is being served by making Charlie Kirk a saint: God or Caesar?
The powers of this world came to Charlie Kirk’s funeral, and some of them spoke the words of the Gospel. But they also spoke the words of Caesar.
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After Annunciation: School shootings are not only a political problem. They’re a spiritual sickness.
If it were only a matter of writing a better law, our regulation of guns would have been strengthened rather than weakened after Sandy Hook. Something else, something deeper, is broken.
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New Website, Same Mission
A.I. was helpful with parts of this process, but it did not and could not have replaced the human contributions.
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The race to claim Pope Leo
We should approach Pope Leo XIV looking not for his alignment with the set of questions we bring to him, but with trust that the Holy Spirit is at work.
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‘Because Trump said so’ is no reason to bomb Iran
As I write, Mr. Trump is declaring that “nobody knows” what he is going to do about Iran. I fear that “nobody” includes him.
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The conclave’s toughest question isn’t whether to pursue unity. It’s how.
The choice of method, more than any difference in underlying doctrine, is where Pope Francis departed most radically from his predecessors.