First, reach out to your neighbors and local mosque to show concern and compassion. Then call out those in your life who dehumanize others.
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The difficult questions Catholics need to ask after the college admissions scandal
Asking the question about access to universities overlooks the painful truth that the entire journey of education is profoundly challenging for the poor and people of color.
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New York loses Amazon, but good governance wins
New York is sending a message that some public officials are no longer willing to play the tax break game, even with giants like Amazon. The rest of the nation should be grateful.
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Why boxing was the most Catholic sport for almost 100 years
As late as the 1970s, boxing saturated U.S. Catholic culture. It reinforced Catholic ideas about the redemptive value of physical suffering; it also offered a powerful form of assimilation to male Catholic immigrants.
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Why this Lent is an opportunity to get our response to sex abuse right
A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.
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Sin and ash: On our collective guilt and the need for reconciliation
Even the holiest people are complicit in social sin; we benefit from injustices that we do not control. Yet we still have the freedom to seek God’s grace.
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How should we react to Michael Cohen’s imperfect contrition?
Was Michael Cohen’s soul searching authentic or merely convenient? It’s a question at least as much about sin as about political strategy.
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After new abortion laws, what the pro-life movement needs to learn from children’s hospitals
Babies are experts at instructing us in the preciousness of human life. Our advocacy for the unborn will be most effective when we allow it make us more compassionate and more humane.
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Million-dollar lawsuits are not the way to learn from the Covington Catholic incident
The family of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann is suing The Washington Post for how it covered the viral incident following the March for Life. From a Catholic perspective, an open and honest conversation is the preferred option.
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Catholic and apostolic: The complicated reality behind oversight of bishops
Lay oversight of Catholic bishops is needed—but it should be a process that respects the principle of apostolic succession while providing a check on the successors of the apostles.