A church that can welcome homeless people only at their best will be a church where everybody fears to show their weaknesses.
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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.
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We need a financial James Bond to prevent a ‘Goldfinger’ attack on Bitcoin
A cyber-destruction of Bitcoin deposits would trigger far-reaching consequences, beyond the realm of the Bitcoin world.
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10 ways Hispanics are redefining American Catholicism in the 21st century
Rapid demographic changes and the fear of the unknown may explain the anxiety of many U.S. Catholics.
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Can the Catholic Church keep millennials from passing it by?
Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.
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A 3-question examination of conscience on immigration that all Catholics need to do
Catholics are called to act and to equip ourselves with truth-telling tools to transform the polemics of immigration into a grace-filled response to human suffering.
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Las Vegas and the fatalism of “thoughts and prayers” Christianity
Pat Robertson and others appear to have abandoned the notion that political action has the ability to improve the lives of the governed.
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What would Martin Luther say about today’s migrant and refugee crises?
We need to revisit the views of this 16th-century reformer on hospitality now more than ever.
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What would Thomas Merton make of Trump, climate change and Twitter?
In his position, others might have begun to hate the world. Instead, Thomas Merton found he could not leave it alone.
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If St. Louis is the “new Selma,” what role will Catholics play in racial reconciliation?
Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?