The new government in Ireland (which looks remarkably like the last one) faces a housing crisis that has become an economic and demographic emergency.
Politics & Society
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Vatican secretary of state: Palestinians must not be deported from Gaza
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, spoke out against President Donald Trump’s proposal to deport more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Poverty should not make a good life impossible
While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the lives of the poor tolerable.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The bishops, Trump and why we can’t predict the future of politics
We cannot wish away reality with counterfactual speculation–nor should we try.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Faith groups sued the Trump administration for its immigration policies. Church leaders should support them.
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations have sued the Trump administration’s to stop ICE agents from making arrests in churches. Solidarity requires us to do more to help the vulnerable.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration
Pope Francis’s letter poses an implicit question to the whole church in the United States: Will we subject our political debates on immigration to the scrutiny of the Gospel or not?
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Faith groups sue over Trump administration policy to permit ICE arrests at churches
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a Trump policy allowing ICE agents to make arrests in places of worship.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
My journey from USAID officer to Jesuit priest
When I worked for U.S.A.I.D., I was not a churchgoer, but the moral vision was clear: We Americans, in our affluence, must reach out to those in need with generosity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The future of the G.O.P. and the working class: What Trump’s cabinet pick tells us
President Trump has nominated Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former congresswoman backed by unions, as secretary of labor. Is it a sign of an improved relationship between labor and the G.O.P. ?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to U.S. Catholic bishops: Oppose mass deportations
The letter also stated that Francis disagrees with identifying the illegal status of migrants with criminality, and called on the bishops “to walk together” and defend the human dignity of the migrants in their country.