Cardinal Tobin: “Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts…. Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities.”
Social Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The church holds out hope during a dark time in the Philippines
President Duterte lashed out against the church again, likely in response to the growing criticism mounted by church leaders against the administration’s drug war.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
New legislation in Canada seeks to protect the transgender community
“I was in deep poverty. I didn’t know anything about social supports in the city. I existed on a bag of apples a week and slept on a lawn chair in my bedroom.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Donald Trump’s wall is a pro-life issue, too.
President Trump’s actions in defense of the unborn are welcome, his proposals for immigration reform are ill conceived and divisive.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Americans are having fewer kids. Are housing costs to blame?
It is clearly more difficult to raise children in a nurturing environment without housing security.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What should guide U.S. immigration policy: self-interest or charity?
Would you not love and admire a country that opened its doors to the tired, the poor, the wretched and the homeless?
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Pro-life groups joined the Women’s March despite its pro-choice platform
Several Catholic groups attended the march despite their disappointment with its overtly pro-choice platform.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Catholic sisters join the Women’s March on Washington
Women religious champion social justice issues at the Women’s March on Washington.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis calls on President Trump to care for the poor and the outcast
Francis wrote, “our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses.”
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Who Counts as a “Real Woman” at the Women’s March on Washington?
To feminists of a certain cloth, the pro-life mentality is not an opposing view. It is an intrinsic evil, in all circumstances inexcusable, even abhorrent.