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Editorials
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders need to start listening to those who have left religion behind
Have the “nones” consciously rejected religion, or have religious institutions failed to involve them and respond to their needs? The only way to find out is by asking.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The January 6 Insurrection Is Still a Crisis for American Democracy
The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Facebook is threatening the common good
Facebook’s business model, built on monetizing human attention while outsourcing human judgment to algorithms, is a uniquely comprehensive and dangerous abdication of responsibility.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: Reverence for the Eucharist transcends politics
The disagreements we have in the Catholic Church in the United States around the Eucharist are largely about discipline, not doctrine.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Lessons out of Afghanistan: Democracy cannot be exported by force—no matter what the ‘experts’ say.
Any exit from Afghanistan was bound to be fraught. That does not reduce our responsibility to assess the Biden administration’s missteps.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Is just war theory relevant to today’s world conflicts?
How should the church go about updating tradition and articulating a more realistic framework?
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Editorial: How you see the sexual abuse crisis
The Catholic Church still has a trust problem, as shown by the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholics commissioned by America Media.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
Forgiveness and healing can begin only after the most difficult part is addressed: confronting the past, speaking the truth, revealing the worst.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Don’t let the plight of Palestinians fall out of the headlines (again)
The United States has dithered on establishing any policy to help bring an end to a conflict now in its eighth decade.