It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”
Donald Trump
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope on Trump: ‘I don’t pass judgment on persons or politicians.’
La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide.”
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
This election shows us why we need to meet our neighbors: that’s how we begin to love them.
If we are not yet exercising a preferential option for those made vulnerable by a Trump presidency, we must absolutely do so now.
Posted in(Un)Conventional Wisdom, Politics & Society
Making America great again, Buyer’s remorse and the president-elect
Maybe our nostalgia for “better days” is simply a case of buyer’s remorse.
Posted inPolitics & Society
How are Catholics reacting to Donald Trump’s unexpected win?
A majority of Catholics—52 percent—voted for Mr. Trump.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
How Donald Trump didn’t lose
That comment about “clinging to their guns and Bibles”—maybe that was the beginning.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Editors: This election made our divisions undeniable, but politics alone won’t heal them
No one should feel complacent about the divisions this election emphasized and exploited, which run far deeper than political allegiances.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
How Our Next President Was Elected
The morning after the election of Donald J. Trump, America‘s National Correspondent, Michael O’Loughlin, and Associate Editor at America, Robert David Sullivan, discuss how the election unfolded with Kerry Weber and Tim Reidy.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Onward Christian Soldier
It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Vatican Secretary of State extends ‘good wishes’ to President-elect Trump
‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’