The law has fueled a diplomatic crisis with Israel, which fears it would enable Poland to whitewash the role of the Poles who killed or denounced Jews during the Holocaust.
Civil Rights
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The Work of the Women’s March Remains Undone
The march’s rallying call last January became even more poignant in the year that followed.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Court seems divided over religious right not to sell cake for same-sex wedding
The questions in the Supreme Court oral arguments weighed anti-discrimination laws against freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
D.C. archdiocese sues transit agency over rejection of Christmas season ads
The Washington Metro cited its guidelines against religious ads in preventing the image of a group of shepherds from running on city buses.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Sister Antona Ebo’s lifelong struggle against white supremacy, inside and outside the Catholic Church
On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
First Amendment may protect Trump tweets against N.F.L. protests
The president’s campaign to define—and enforce—patriotism poses constitutional questions for chief executives and football players alike.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Daniel in the lions’ den: A Berrigan biography
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., went from a poet to an activist, and turned activism into poetry.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
If St. Louis is the “new Selma,” what role will Catholics play in racial reconciliation?
Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
What does the Arpaio pardon mean for the future of civil rights?
On Twitter, the president even called him an “American Patriot.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Making sense of the tension and contradictions in Kenya and Rwanda’s elections
Two elections this month in eastern and central Africa—in Kenya and Rwanda—have brought out tensions and contradictions in the continent’s democratic process.