The decisions of our government with regard to immigrants since Jan. 20 have been despicable, and support among Catholics for those decisions embarrassing.
Donald Trump
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What does Catholic social teaching say about the GOP health care plan?
The American Health Care Act seriously tests many principles of Catholic social teaching.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Will President Trump rescind this national monument’s status from Native Americans?
A tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis on a plane: never a dull moment
When the pope gets on a plane, reporters go on high alert.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Why are private prisons thriving under Trump?
How many deaths will it take to end for-profit prisons?
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Pro-life views are not ‘extremism’ and shouldn’t disqualify Gorsuch
Preserving an absolute right to abortion does not justify pre-emptive opposition to a Supreme Court nominee.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
5 tips for students engaging in politics on campus
This sobering new reality for immigrant students presents questions and issues for all students on campus as well as those high school seniors planning to attend college in the fall.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Adoration Economy: Where we pay attention, we lend our power.
Whether you are pro-Trump or anti-Trump—you’re still transacting in the attention economy of Trump.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic group reactions to Trump’s latest immigration ban range from concern to opposition
Catholic and other religious groups joined secular leaders in questioning the wisdom Trump’s move, with others vowing to oppose it outright.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Wuerl: Pope Francis has reconnected the church with Vatican II
Reconnecting the church “with the energy of the Second Vatican Council,” may be the pope’s greatest achievement, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington said in an exclusive interview as the fourth anniversary of the pope’s election approaches.