Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.
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In an interview with EWTN, Trump hails ‘tremendous letter of support from the Catholic Church’
Few questions dealt directly with Catholicism, but host Raymond Arroyo did ask the president about a letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
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President Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA protections
Trump denounced the high court’s ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.
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Critics denounce Attorney General Barr’s decision to set execution dates for death row inmates
Attorney General William Barr has set execution dates for four federal prisoners on death row.
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Trump, the inspectors general and the precarious state of government accountability
Unknown to most citizens, the dozens of inspectors general in the federal government look for waste, fraud and ethics violations. And President Trump has begun firing them, writes Kevin Wildes, S.J.
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Ignore the optics. Trump’s executive order could jump-start the cause of global religious freedom.
President Trump may be a flawed messenger, but his administration is making significant progress in promoting global religious freedom, writes Daniel Philpott of the University of Notre Dame.
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The president is dragging the church into a culture war. We shouldn’t let him.
President Trump’s visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine continues a pattern of using sacred sites for political stunts, writes America associate editor Zac Davis. This is over the line of what the church should tolerate.
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Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory calls Trump’s visit to John Paul II Shrine ‘reprehensible’
Archbishop Gregory: “I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles.”
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Trump deems churches ‘essential’ and calls for them to reopen
Trump said if governors don’t abide by his request, he will “override” them, though it’s unclear what authority he has to do so.
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9/11 led to a more militarized United States. Can we do better with Covid-19?
After the 9/11 attacks, the United States threw out international law and established a surveillance society, writes Margot Patterson. Covid-19 calls for a less heavy-handed approach, but will we realize that?