Archbishop José Gomez is an immigrant, a minority and the president of the U.S.C.C.B. When he speaks on the issue of racism and social injustice, it is worth paying attention.
Short Take
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Can we please stop idolizing the decadent lifestyles that are destroying our planet?
Ivy Getty’s extravagant wedding was designed to make us jealous. We need to find more climate-friendly experiences of FOMO.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Receiving Communion is never a ‘private’ matter. The common good is at stake.
The Covid pandemic has reminded us of the importance of placing the concerns of the community before our own as individuals. So why would we view the reception of the Eucharist as a private matter?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Are racial justice movements straying from Catholic tradition — or are Catholic leaders out of touch?
Archbishop José Gomez’s speech on social justice movements displays a lack of understanding of Black Catholics and other groups too often at the margin of the church.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The abortion debate should always honor the experiences — and bodies — of women
Pregnancy transforms a woman’s body into one that supports another but nevertheless remains hers. This is too often overlooked in pro-life political arguments.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Aaron Rodgers’s Selfish Gnosticism about Covid-19
Aaron Rodgers has provided a powerful reminder that religious problems like clericalism and gnosticism are not confined to the religious world.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Denying Communion to Joe Biden won’t bring people back to Mass. The U.S. bishops likely know this.
Denying Communion to Joe Biden will not get Catholics back in the pews — or bring together a church whose members are sometimes more likely to bend the knee to an elephant or donkey than to the eucharistic Lord.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today
On this 25th anniversary of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death, we can look back to him for guidance as we try to find a way out of the hostility toward dialogue we have been trapped in since the 1990s.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Archbishop Coakley of Oklahoma City: A culture of life means an end to the death penalty
We must ask ourselves whether executing people on death row is truly a matter of public safety or merely a state-sanctioned tool for exacting the public’s demand for revenge.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
‘Trust the experts’ is the new ‘obey the priest.’ But it is not getting us closer to the truth.
The worship of expertise, detached from any transcendent perspective, has already plagued modern life. Now rationality is becoming just another weapon with which to attack others.