“The reports being circulated of planned mass deportations targeting the Chicago area are not only profoundly disturbing but also wound us deeply,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said Sunday during a visit to Mexico City
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Small-town Americans swung for Trump. That doesn’t mean they’ll back him at any cost.
To see what Trump 2.0’s America could look like, John W. Miller spoke to people in Punxsutawney, Pa. about how life might change for them in 2025.
Posted inFaith, News
Trump bonded with a Brooklyn priest over a graveside visit. Now he’s giving the inauguration benediction.
The retired Brooklyn priest and the president-elect of the United States struck up an unlikely relationship because the clergyman took an interest in the president-elect’s family gravesite.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Refugees, Trump and the duty of Catholics
On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Kelly Ryan, the president of Jesuit Refugee Service USA, about her 30 years of experience working with refugees and migrants—with an eye to the second Trump administration.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Catholic Trump voter. I hope Americans can find a better way to talk about politics.
We Catholics ought to be at the forefront in establishing a better way for Americans to discuss matters of political significance.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The return of Trump is a triumph for patriarchy. Our young men deserve better.
We do not need the “warrior culture” of Pete Hegseth and others in the Trump circle. Instead, we need to develop a culture of encounter and belonging.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cardinal McElroy is a man of dialogue. Trump should be willing to talk—and listen—to him.
In 2017 speech to a conference of the World Meeting of Popular Movements, Cardinal McElroy, the newly appointed archbishop of Washington, gives a hint as to how he might approach the incoming Trump administration.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A Catholic Canadian on Trump’s threat to make his homeland the 51st U.S. state
Canada. The true north, strong and…free? Not if President-elect Donald J. Trump has anything to say about it. And he does.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What democracy demands of citizens under Trump
“If democracy is under threat from authoritarian urges, it is time to rediscover and reorganize our mutual obedience.”
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Cardinal McElroy, named new D.C. archbishop, foresees conflict with Trump over immigration, climate change
Pope Francis today named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of Donald Trump’s second administration.