President Biden is lobbying for a spending bill containing many ideas that the U.S. bishops have long supported. Catholic leaders and voters should recognize this opportunity for bipartisanship.
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Colin Powell was a warrior — with a healthy skepticism of war.
Colin Powell’s great misfortune was to serve as secretary of state among “the Vulcans,” the Republican policy-makers who subverted Mr. Powell’s more moderate initiatives.
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Pope Francis was right to call out the attacks from EWTN. You don’t dialogue with the devil.
You don’t dialogue with the devil. But if you’re the pope, you might choose to call out the devil’s work.
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Stop comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
Some opponents of vaccine and mask mandates claim that they are being treated like Jews in Nazi Germany. This appropriation of the Holocaust is wildly offensive and shuts down civil discussion.
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I love Pope Francis. But his criticism of EWTN disturbs me as a journalist.
While criticism can go too far, veering into open partisanship and misinformation, calling criticism of the church “the work of the devil” is not an avenue for dialogue.
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Kerry Kennedy: Joe Biden must put his Catholic faith into action and stop deporting Haitian asylum seekers
Haitian asylum seekers are entitled to our protection, writes Kerry Kennedy after a visit to the border community of Del Rio, Texas. Instead, we have subjected them to abuse and immediate deportation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Notre Dame football is off to a hot start. Don’t get your hopes up.
Yes, the Fighting Irish are undefeated. Yes, they have beaten several very good teams. Yes, their opponent this weekend, Cincinnati, is the only currently nationally-ranked team left on their schedule. Who are we kidding? Notre Dame is doomed.
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Catholic lawmakers can’t justify voting for the Democrats’ new abortion bill
In some cases, the best Catholic morality doesn’t translate to the best public laws. But the Women’s Health Protection Act goes beyond the pale.
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Remembering Thomas Levergood, who brought serious Catholic thought back to the secular university
In founding the Lumen Christi Institute in 1997, Thomas Levergood created a model for engaging the secular disciplines with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
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We need to stop using the word ‘prostitute’
The word “prostitute” labels a woman with a false identity, one that fails to take into account life circumstances and instead relies on a twisted definition of “choice.”