But critics say the president’s talk about human dignity rings hollow when he is using his office to advance the greatest social injustice in America since slavery—abortion—in the next moment.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Georgia’s new voting law is an affront to Catholic social teaching.
Georgia’s new voting law should set off social-justice alarm bells, writes Kathleen Bonnette. We should listen to the communities most affected by the new restrictions.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is there a ‘crisis’ on the U.S.-Mexico border? It’s a tough question to answer.
‘It is a question of perspective. Whose perspective do we adopt when we ask questions like that?’
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Is it wrong to bring children into a broken world? The theological case against the growing anti-natalist movement.
The antinatalist movement might strike many people as misguided, but considering its arguments can lead Christians to examine vexing questions around our understanding of eternal punishment.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholics in Quebec are leaving the church in droves. Can reinventing parish life save it?
“A prophetic church like [the one sought by Pope Francis], highlighting social justice and solidarity with the destitute and the persecuted, has the potential of closing the chasm between the church and the modern, secular culture of Quebec.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Nursing homes were broken long before Covid-19
We live in the age of the aging, and our capitalist economy is struggling to cope.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about the American Work Force
Human dignity does not depend on having a job.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
To understand Pope Francis, you have to know what he actually means by the word ‘fraternity’
In a world that trivializes kinship more and more, Pope Francis’ retrieval of the concept of fraternity is timely and challenging.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Rep. Tom Suozzi: How Joe Biden’s Catholic faith will guide his presidency
As president, Joe Biden will have to seek common ground across a wide ideological spectrum, writes Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York. His relationship with God as a Catholic will help him to do so.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The most essential or most vulnerable: Who should get the coronavirus vaccine first?
This weekend, a C.D.C. panel will likely decide which group should get the Covid-19 vaccine next. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, writes the Catholic ethicist Charles Camosy.