Diehard traditionalists say the stakes are too high and they don’t feel they have a choice.
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Posted inEditorials, Faith
How can the church serve the Hispanic community at a time of rapid change?
Hispanics made up 70 percent of the church’s growth in the last 50 years.
Posted inArts & Culture, Columns
Where have all the Catholic intellectuals gone?
If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Forget what you’ve heard: Catholic schools aren’t dying.
The true story of Catholic schools is their continued success despite difficulties.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Why Trump can’t win without white Catholics
American Catholics translate to about 20 percent of all registered voters, but they may have an outsized effect on Trump’s chances.
Posted inPolitics & Society
White Catholics have ‘to talk about race and to admit their racism’
Why the slow movement toward racial justice in the church?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
If the G.O.P. gets its way, party politics could be coming to a pulpit near you.
The Johnson Amendment currently prohibits churches from engaging in overt political activity.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Mike Pence’s relationship with the Catholic Church is…complicated
Pence, long described as a culture warrior, nonetheless supports many issues important to some Catholics.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Bishop McElroy Calls for a Practical ‘Apology’ to L.G.B.T. Catholics
The pope’s call for Christians to offer an apology to gay and lesbian people, issued during his flight back to Rome from Armenia on June 26, was carefully welcomed by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. “I think it opens up a very helpful pathway to dialogue and, hopefully, healing,&rdqu
Posted inFaith
Parishes must resist the myth of the ‘Latino threat’
Immigrants are not nuisances but fellow pilgrims on our shared spiritual journey.