Fifty percent of Catholics said they voted for Democratic candidates, and 49 percent said they voted for Republicans. This could represent a significant swing to the left since the last presidential election.
Will Martino
Will Martino is a Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., fellow at America Media.
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Archbishop of Detroit calls out voter suppression ahead of midterms: ‘It’s an affront to God’
Archbishop Edward Weisenburger joined the “Vigil for Voting” with other faith leaders to call out voter suppression and divisive rhetoric.
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He could have been a candidate for assisted suicide in Canada. He wants a more hopeful solution.
The law that would have made Peter Oliver eligible for assisted suicide never took effect, and he’s working to keep it that way.
Posted inFilm
What I saw at the premiere (for the trailer) of the new Narnia movie
Just a few short hours before the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” went live on Tuesday afternoon, I watched it in a theater with Gerwig herself.
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Trump administration sets a refugee limit, prioritizing white South Africans
The U.S. Refugee admissions threshold of 17,500 reflects an 80 percent decrease from the historical average across decades of both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations alike.
Posted inPoetry
Works both familiar and surprising: America’s Fall poetry roundup
In this roundup of poetry from the past year, ‘America’ editors and staff explore worlds of verse and fragments of reality that enchant and unsettle.
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Does a light show at St. Patrick’s Cathedral deliver transcendence? You decide.
A new light show at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York promises transcendence…but the real transcendence might be in the cathedral itself, rather than the performance.
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There’s a difference between being lazy and being still
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Will Martino
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After botched execution in Tennessee, Catholics pray for the end of the death penalty
“We have, unfortunately, a lot of examples that point to why the death penalty should be ended once and for all,” the head of the Catholic Mobilizing Network said after a woman survived two failed attempts to execute her by lethal injection.
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Falling in love with Duncan Sheik’s ‘Spring Awakening’ as a 13-year-old theater kid
To me, “Spring Awakening” has always been about young people exploring darkness for the first time.