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The Supreme Court is seen in Washington May 5, 2022. (CNS photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert David Sullivan
According to a rash of new polls, Americans have come together over the belief that the country’s major institutions are seriously out of whack.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jim McDermott
Every ticket scooped up by scalpers is one less ticket available to the very people that the pope is going to Canada to see.
A woman supporting abortion rights shouts at anti-abortion protesters outside the South Carolina Statehouse on July 7, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Peter Steinfels
The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jim McDermott
Dante’s great insight in “Inferno” is that ultimately the only way out of hell is going through it, by confronting what we see there and what we feel.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Paul D. McNelis, S.J.
We can't let inflation go unchallenged. President Biden is running out of time before investment dries up because of confusion and fear.
Pro-life demonstrators are seen near the Supreme Court in Washington June 15, 2022. The court overruled the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision in its ruling in the Dobbs case on a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks June 24. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert David Sullivan
The idea that the government should broadly reflect the values of the majority of the governed is in serious trouble.