“We cannot go about our business quietly at home while Lazarus lies at the door,” Pope Francis said.
Social Justice
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Donald Trump, the Temple and the End Time
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.”
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Father James Martin: Reconciliation and Dissent in the Age of Trump
How does a Catholic move ahead after the election of Donald J. Trump as president?For many Catholics this not a problem. Indeed, the majority of Catholics voted for Mr. Trump and are presumably delighted by his victory. White Catholics, perhaps responding to his message to promote job growth, s
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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.”
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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.
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How Donald Trump didn’t lose
That comment about “clinging to their guns and Bibles”—maybe that was the beginning.
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Obama offers a welcome opportunity for de-escalation in Dakota pipeline stand-off
Americans might be forgiven if they thought they had put the great pipeline wars behind them with the abandonment of the giant Keystone XL.
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Black Catholics bear witness to a gentrified Oakland
St. Columba began celebrating Black Catholic History Month and Kwanzaa alongside the regular events in the liturgical calendar.
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Pope Francis denounces the ‘basic terrorism’ of a global economy built on exclusion and war
“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.
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Los Angeles contemplates a radical investment in housing
Under Proposition HHH, nearly $1.2 billion would go toward 10,000 “permanent supportive housing” units.