This November, we should pray for those who have died in deaths related to our immigration policy and enforcement, whether in detention centers, on the streets or while driving their cars.
Terence Sweeney
Terence Sweeney is a professor in the Honors Program at Villanova University.
Posted inDispatches
An American pope at the birthplace of independence
Pope Leo XIV is in many ways the leader best situated to summon Americans back to their deepest values.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Can we keep education human in an A.I. age? Pope Leo is asking us to.
It is in considering the nature of education that Pope Leo has some of his strongest claims about the need to restrain A.I.
Posted inShort Take
Dear JD Vance: The Iran war is very much Pope Leo’s business.
JD Vance appears to see delighting in death and making genocidal threats as not matters of morality—and thus something the pope should just keep quiet about.
Posted inBooks
Catholics are both/and people. But we still face stark choices in following Christ.
Catholicism is a both/and religion, true, but that puts before us some strong binaries between having faith in Christ or not, between serving the least of these or not.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Pope Leo’s Latin Mass Problem
Pope Leo’s predecessors took markedly different approaches to liturgical reform. Leo must chart a course between them while settling on which is fundamentally the correct path.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Trump’s migration policy isn’t just a constitutional violation—it’s a biblical one
Our country is not only in a constitutional crisis; we are in a biblical crisis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Making a Nation of Immigrants Great Again
Supporting immigrants in this country is about American greatness because American greatness has always depended on immigration.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Advice to new priests hoping to change a parish: go slow and listen
And remember, it’s not about you.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
JD Vance got a lot wrong about St. Augustine’s ordering of loves
The ‘ordo amoris’ was never about loving less or more narrowly.