In her new memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Senator Kamala D. Harris, Democrat of California, positions herself as an underdog, a savvy “top cop” and, most of all, Shyamala Gopalan’s daughter.
Brandon Sanchez
Brandon Sanchez is an audience voices reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was an O’Hare fellow at America.
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Vatican commission members: Women served as deacons for a millennium
Women served as deacons in Europe for about a millennium in a variety of ministerial and sacramental roles.
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In the dead of winter, Helen Sung’s jazz feels like summertime
“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”
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The enduring strangeness of American conspiracy theories
A bleak alchemy is and always has been at work in the United States, binding documented whoppers to a wider, wilder paranoia.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Inside the Supreme Court’s latest case on cruelty and the death penalty
Newly appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh takes part in the argument over death-penalty methods that may cause “gruesome and brutal pain.”
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What will happen to Dorothy Day’s former church?
Whether the site will be developed into luxury apartments or low-income housing remains the subject of contentious debate.
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Infographic: The role of college campus ministries
The report examined two distinct approaches to campus ministry. Degree-educated staff tend to emphasize public service, but missionary-trained staff are more likely to focus on students’ personal relationships with God.
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Seattle University plans fossil fuel divestment: Will other Jesuit schools follow its lead?
The fossil fuel divestment movement, which started in the 2000s, has become a mainstay of activism on college campuses.
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Creed II’s lesson on life and politics: Our parents’ wars belong to us after all
The shimmer of liberal democracy has been tarnished with grit and grime, dulled by wear and tear. We are stuck in the ring, brawling in our stars-and-stripes shorts.
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Philadelphia Archdiocese sets up reparation fund for abuse victims
Acting on his promise to find new ways to support survivors of clerical sexual abuse, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced Nov. 8 that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is creating a new reparations program open to anyone abused by clergy in the archdiocese.