The Editors: “Rather than a claim to know conscience’s demands for everyone, it is a challenge for voters to engage in deeper reflection, prayer and dialogue.”
Politics & Society
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Learning from Arendt: How the lies of the 2024 campaign could be a step toward authoritarianism
Undermining the fabric of shared reality is one of the most brutal and insidious tactics of authoritarian regimes. Christians have a moral responsibility to stand against lies.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Winter is coming in Gaza. How much worse will the misery get?
Most families have been forced to move many times and with each new displacement, families lose or abandon more belongings. Not many of them by now have clothing appropriate for worsening weather conditions.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates
As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the papal almoner raised $35,000 in one afternoon from synod delegates and immediately sent it to Holy Family Parish in Gaza City.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to welcome Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to Vatican
Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A rabbi’s response to the Oct. 7 attacks—and how the conflict has evolved since
Israel was forced into this impossible situation by those who planned and executed Oct. 7. Yet we have been confronted with denials, justifications and even glorifications of the Hamas attack.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A nonviolent resistance movement is at work in Palestine. Activists say it’s the only way to peace.
A delegation organized by the American group Christians for Ceasefire visits Palestine and experiences a weeklong training session in nonviolent resistance.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A lesson from Punxsutawney: The United States will always be divided—and that’s O.K.
With Pennsylvania widely considered the most crucial of the seven 2024 swing states and America feeling stuck in a winter of discord haunted by the specter of political violence, I decided to report on the election from Punxsutawney.
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Catholic leaders in U.S. and Holy Land reflect on an anniversary of violence
The violence has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent victims, but it also “struck a profound blow to the common feeling of belonging to the Holy Land, to the consciousness of being part of a plan of Providence.”
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A year of anxiety and anguish for the Jewish people
One year after Oct. 7, we live amid a stunning increase in antisemitism. Never in my nearly 40 years as a rabbi have I heard so many expressions of despair from the Jewish community. Never have I come so close to it myself.