Missouri plans to proceed with the lethal injection of Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, despite doubts about his guilt and widespread backlash.
Connor Hartigan
Connor Hartigan is an O'Hare Fellow and former editorial intern at America Media.
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Don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan
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The Portal: Where Dublin and New York greet each other—and learn something about themselves
All summer long, New Yorkers and Dubliners have had a unique chance to wave at one another—and sometimes more—through a unique public art installation. America’s three new O’Hare fellows took a trip to see The Portal before it closes next week.
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How possessions get in the way of prayer
A Reflection for Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan
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Why be Catholic?
A Reflection for Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan
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Interview: Gerard O’Connell on his friendship with Pope Francis and reporting from the Vatican
Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell describes his journalistic ministry in the city at the heart of the Catholic faith.
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The universality of the Catholic faith
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan
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Interview: Putting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms? Catholics should think twice.
Georgetown professor Jacques Berlinerblau, an expert on secularism, argues Catholics should be wary of Louisiana’s new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public classrooms.
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Only 13% of Americans see President Biden as ‘very religious’
The number was even smaller for former President Donald Trump, with just 4% of respondents seeing Trump, a non-denominational Christian, as “very religious.”