While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of reversing progress against global poverty.
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Nick Fuentes appeals to young Catholics. Is the church prepared to push back?
As bishops remain mostly silent on Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes’s growing influence, Catholic media leaders and scholars are left to explain what his rise says about the church’s shrinking authority online.
Posted inDispatches
North Carolina’s Catholic response to the ICE immigration crackdown
As an ICE campaign continues in Charlotte, local Catholic parishes respond and mass attendance plummets.
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Inside a public witness and prayer for immigrants at a New York City courthouse
The procession lasted more than 90 minutes as temperatures dropped and hail gave way to bursts of freezing rain. Marchers, bundled in scarves and gloves, pressed on, walking past security officers who observed in silence from behind metal barricades.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
The government shutdown has ended. But America’s hunger crisis continues.
With food insecurity on the rise across the country, SNAP became a political football during the federal shutdown as President Trump saw the program as leverage against Senate Democrats.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The moral authority of John Lewis
David Greenberg has produced a biography of John Lewis that, if not quite definitive, is still the gold standard by which all subsequent biographies will be judged.
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Bishop Seitz previews new plan for U.S. bishops to support immigrants: ‘Statements alone are not enough’
“As pastors devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we know statements alone are not enough,” Bishop Seitz told his brother bishops in Baltimore.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Michael Harrington, the ‘pious apostate’ who championed socialism in America
Michael Harrington was America’s much-needed conscience on issues of poverty in the 1960s and later.
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U.S. Catholics are facing an authoritarian threat. The church has been here before.
The Catholic Church in the United States today is facing a crucial test. Will Catholic leadership accommodate and adapt itself to authoritarian power? Or will it offer leadership to give hope, oppose authoritarian abuses and defend human freedom?
Posted inEditorials
The editors: Safe borders do not require terror tactics from ICE
When did the notion that we should protect our borders and regulate immigration devolve into a determination to unleash anonymous masked agents pulling people from cars, and to publicly celebrate the creation of true hellholes like the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility?