The problem for Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Church, was socialism’s focus on class conflict at the expense of the concrete love of individuals.
US Politics
Posted inBooks
Moderates and liberals stopped going to church. We’re only beginning to see the effects.
In ‘The Vanishing Church,’ Ryan Burge presents a data-driven picture of how the American religious and political landscapes have transformed together over the past 50 years.
Posted inEditorials
The editors: It is time to consider age limits for our political leaders
The simplest and most robust solution for the tendency of elected officials to hold on to office beyond their capacity to serve is a mirror image of the age limits we already have: a constitutional amendment restricting eligibility for our nation’s higher offices to those under 75.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
U.S. Catholics, from bishops to lay advocates, scramble to help Haitian community as ICE prepares for deportations
In Miami, which hosts the largest Haitian community in the country, Archbishop Wenski described Haitian residents as “very tense, very nervous” as they await whatever comes next.
Posted inShort Take
Florida has no business explaining Catholic teaching on vaccines to the bishops
Even if you are sympathetic to Catholic parents who conscientiously object to mandatory vaccinations, do you really want to live in a country where public officials determine what counts as heresy for religious citizens?
Posted inNews
Massachusetts bishops: Elimination of ‘any legal restraint’ on late-term abortion is ‘gravely immoral’
On Aug. 10, Massachusetts’ Catholic governor signed into law a bill that allows physicians to perform abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy if in their “professional judgment” it is medically necessary.
Posted inShort Take
We need a more biblical view of American history
The Bible isn’t afraid to call out the failings of political and religious leaders. Modern historians shouldn’t be either.
Posted inNews
How grief made Archbishop García-Siller a prophetic voice on immigration
Since Pope Leo spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller’s new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.
Posted inShort Take
Ross Douthat and the case for the Catholic lay intellectual
Ross Douthat’s greatest contribution has not been to conservative politics or even to Catholic debates. It has been to demonstrate that Catholicism remains an intellectually serious way of understanding the world.
Posted inShort Take
The lesson of the Ceuta migrant crisis isn’t about liberal border policy.
Ceuta is a symptom of a global problem. And it will get worse without action.