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Homeless man playing guitar in underpass tunnel (iStock/South_agency)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill Smith
In my 40 years being homeless and working with the unhoused, I have learned that there is no one major reason why people become homeless.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at a rally in June 1991 against the closing of Plattsburgh Air Force Base. (Sgt. Tracy Santee, U.S.A.F., via Wikimedia Commons)
FaithShort Take
Paul James Macrae
He might not have intended to, but Mario Cuomo paved the way for the Pilate-like indifference of so many Catholic politicians to abortion today.
People dressed in Indigenous costumes pray during the 91st procession and Mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego in Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2022.(CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles)
FaithShort Take
José Luis Castro
In places like Compton and East L.A., Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated as a symbol of hope and protection. She is the protector of the unborn, the oppressed and the immigrants.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
James Martin, S.J.
Perhaps even more shocking than the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Brian Thompson was the response in some places to this crime: celebration, lionization and valorization of the killer.
President Joe Biden speaks at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree near the White House on Dec. 5, 2024. Catholic Mobilizing Network has initiated a national petition for Catholics to urge President Biden to commute the sentences of all 40 men currently on federal death row. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy
We are at a critical juncture in the U.S. death penalty abolition movement. And we as Catholics—including President Biden—can heed the words of Pope Francis and light the way.
A boy mourns over the body of his father and other Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip Oct. 9, 2024. They were killed in an Israeli strike amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (OSV News photo/Ramadan Abed, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
David Neuhaus, S.J.
What motivates the pope in his stand on the war in Gaza? And why are some Jewish partners in dialogue expressing misgivings about his words?