While Donald Trump’s executive orders claim to defend civil rights through “colorblind” neutrality, his rhetoric exposes what this supposed neutrality protects: not equality, but an unjust racial status quo.
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Trump’s irresponsible talk about South Africa ‘white genocide’ stokes racial divisions
President Donald Trump’s promotion of a erroneous narrative of white farmers being “killed and slaughtered” in a genocide in South Africa is contributing to racial tensions there.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Don’t let Christianity be hijacked by MAGA
Don’t let the Trump administration be the only public face of Christianity, while you retract your faith into privacy, hoping to avoid being associated with MAGA.
Posted inNews Analysis
The Constitution does not enforce itself.
Good faith and fair dealing—adherence to what we might call “norms”—is essential to the functioning of American government.
Posted inYour Take
Are ‘terror tactics’ justifiable in enforcing immigration law?
Following Pope Leo XIV’s remarks on Oct. 23 defending the rights of migrants, America’s editors published an editorial arguing that “Safe Borders Do Not Require Terror Tactics From ICE.” Our readers had much to say in response.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
What might Pope Leo make of Trump’s ‘America First’ National Security Strategy?
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy is at odds with church teaching and Pope Leo’s priorities on the transatlantic alliance, climate change, immigration, arms production, nuclear weapons and more.
Posted inOf Many Things
Why President Trump is treating illegal immigration as sacrilege
Illegal immigration is being treated as a sacrilege because it seems to violate something that has been made into an idol: the status and the security of being American.
Posted inNews
Chicago Catholic coalition sues ICE over denial of holy Communion, pastoral care
A group of clergy and religious, and a Catholic social justice organization filed a lawsuit Nov. 19 against the Trump administration over being barred from bringing holy Communion and pastoral care to detainees at an immigration processing center just west of Chicago.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
We know how to fight global poverty. But do we have the will to actually do it?
While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of reversing progress against global poverty.
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North Carolina’s Catholic response to the ICE immigration crackdown
As an ICE campaign continues in Charlotte, local Catholic parishes respond and mass attendance plummets.