Though they haven’t escaped all stigma lingering from Islamic terror attacks on British soil, Muslims’ response to the Grenfell Tower fire has highlighted their social and charitable engagement.
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Millions could lose food stamps under new Farm Bill
House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.
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Why Paul Ryan’s ‘economic approach’ to politics clashes with Catholic teaching
The conflict between Mr. Ryan’s libertarianism and his Catholicism rests on rival anthropologies.
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It’s bodies against bullets at the Gaza border
Hamas, it seems, has taken Israeli contempt for Palestinian life as a cultural and political weakness that Gazans can turn against the oppressor state.
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When can a doctor conscientiously object?
A proposed bill in the United Kingdom seeks “to clarify the extent to which a medical practitioner with a conscientious objection may refrain from participating in certain medical activities.”
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Pope Francis’ new exhortation on holiness is deeply Ignatian
Examining “Gaudete et Exsultate” from the viewpoint of St. Ignatius’ meditation on the two standards.
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¡Que viva el papa! Five years of the first Latin American pope
This week’s top U.S.-Latino Catholic news
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March 2: This week’s top U.S.-Latino Catholic news
V Encuentro: How to reach fallen-away Latino Catholics
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Can the new push for gun control change the way (and whether) guns are stored in the home?
The desire for stronger gun control may not translate into more caution with gun storage among owners of firearms.
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How the Catholic Church could help lead a gun control movement
If Catholic leaders seriously want to push gun control legislation, what might a concerted campaign look like?