I’ve been feeling so down on the state of affairs in this nation that I’ve started to wonder if I can even celebrate the Fourth of July this year without feeling painfully disingenuous. So I looked to my colleagues for hope.
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I was always personally pro-life but politically pro-choice. Now, I’m ready to drop the pro-choice label.
We now live in a “shout your abortion” nation, and a message that crass will never be embraced in more conservative parts of the United States, nor should it be.
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Catholics should care about restricting cigarettes
Catholics have an opportunity to approach tobacco policy for what it is—a pro-life issue.
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Dobbs could be the beginning of the end for the pro-life movement—unless we step up to the challenge.
We cannot protect the unborn simply by defeating something or rolling back cultural developments. We must build something.
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How do pollsters decide who’s a ‘devout’ Catholic?
Abortion polls tell part of the story.
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The Jesuit priests killed in Mexico were more than just names in a headline
One of Father Mora’s former students wanted me to know that he was much more to her than just another name, another victim, another number in Mexico’s spiraling civil violence.
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‘If we are unified, Satan will be unable to get in’: A report from an interfaith peace delegation to Ukraine
What can spiritual power do in a war zone? An interfaith peace delegation went to Kyiv to provide pastoral accompaniment and explore ways to break the dynamics of violence.
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On abortion and LGBT rights, states are getting more powerful. Will there be a backlash?
Will a reversal of Roe v. Wade, which would return the power to regulate abortion to the states, be popular with American voters and Catholic voters in particular? Not necessarily.
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3 things the Catholic Church can do to fight racism (besides issuing statements)
It is not enough to issue occasional condemnations of racism. The U.S. church must invest in Black Catholic churches and schools, as well as diocesan offices for Black parishioners.
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Remembering Father Michael Himes, a brilliant scholar and an exuberant, smiling priest
The Rev. Michael J. Himes was a theologian who taught with energy, order, concreteness, wit—and exuberance.