I love that countries are stuck with their own citizens—no trades or transfers. This is a beautiful thing.
June 2018
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Church praised for proactive response on abuse, but warned of potential complacency
Despite groundbreaking steps the U.S. Catholic Church has taken to prevent the sexual abuse of minors in the past 16 years, a potential “complacency” in following safety protocols could pose a challenge to those hard-won advances.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders denounce Sessions’s asylum decision: ‘We have truly lost our moral compass.’
A decision to deny appeals for asylum in the United States based on claims of domestic abuse or gang violence has been deplored by Catholic leaders from coast to coast.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Devastating fire in Kensington changed the way Britain views Muslims
Though they haven’t escaped all stigma lingering from Islamic terror attacks on British soil, Muslims’ response to the Grenfell Tower fire has highlighted their social and charitable engagement.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Australia Prime Minister to make national apology to victims of sexual abuse
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will deliver a national apology to child sex abuse victims, as part of the government’s response to a long-running inquiry that heard allegations against government and private institutions and prominent individuals in five years of hearings.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: We need to fast-track housing near public transit
City planners are increasingly alarmed by two trends: a growing shortage of affordable housing and a nationwide decline in public transit ridership.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
AMA delegates vote for continued review of assisted suicide policy
The American Medical Association House of Delegates voted 314-243 not to affirm the report of the organization’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs to maintain the AMA’s long-held opposition to assisted suicide.
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Vatican team returns to Chile to ‘ask forgiveness’ for clergy sex abuse
The archbishop said his team’s pastoral mission includes providing “concrete technical and legal assistance to the dioceses in Chile so they may give adequate responses to each case of sexual abuse of minors committed by clergy or religious.”
Posted inArts & Culture, News
‘Tag’ movie based on three-decade chase game of Jesuit school friends
A group of Catholic high school friends has kept in touch — literally — since graduating more than 30 years ago from Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Overprescribing is not the problem behind the opioid crisis
Our June 13 guest is Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who practices in a methadone clinic and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. We discuss her recent article, “Prescriptions are not to blame for today’s opioid crisis” Listen to the show live on Wednesday at 1:00 PM EST on The Catholic Channel Sirius XM […]