There is little question that what the government is doing is not only illegal but inhumane and unnecessary.
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
There’s no problem with praying after a mass shooting—but what does that prayer look like?
The real problem is not the offering of prayers in the face of tragedy but the interpretation of what prayer entails.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Meet these Catholics who voted for Trump and love Pope Francis
The voters I spoke with were not single-issue voters, and they showed a comfort with, even insistence on, complexity around a range of issues that are part of our national conversation.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
After the California fires, the Diocese of Santa Rosa finds community among the ruins
Upward of 3,000 buildings have been destroyed just in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 people.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Five things Hollywood could learn from the Catholic Church after Harvey Weinstein
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is a warning that Hollywood cannot try to minimize or downplay the actions of Harvey Weinstein.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Goodbye Columbus Day? Why Italian-Americans deserve a better holiday
“Celebrating Columbus Day does not honor their story and their struggle and their history; it insults it.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Tent City, USA: Southern California’s homelessness crisis
It is not only Anaheim, but Southern California as a whole that finds itself in the midst of a homelessness emergency.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How L.A.’s Catholic schools are growing when so many others are closing
“Our vision is growth. We’re the largest archdiocese in the country, largest Catholic school system in the country, and we still feel like we’re underserving our population.”
Posted inPolitics & Society
Twenty years after her death, Princess Diana is still a glimpse of something good.
The thing you hear again and again about Diana is that like Pope Francis, she “saw” the people around her.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Game of Thrones has a serious point to make about Hurricane Harvey and climate change
Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.