A broad investor coalition involving religious orders, labor unions and state pension funds that control more than $3 trillion in assets is working with the nation’s leading drug distributors as corporate annual meeting season nears.
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Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Will a 40-foot cross finally push the Supreme Court to revisit public religious displays?
The case gives the court an opportunity to clarify the test used to determine when government-sponsored religious displays violate the First Amendment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Hubert H. Humphrey, a politician worth emulating
Arnold Offner’s biography shows Hubert Humphrey as a serious man who sought a serious goal: the betterment of his fellow Americans, whether through persuasion or legislation.
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Covington Catholic student sues Washington Post for $250 million
The Catholic high school student at the center of an encounter with a Native American tribal leader in Washington filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit Feb. 19 against The Washington Post claiming the newspaper’s coverage of the incident was biased.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Western societies can’t ignore the ‘crisis of trust’ we’re experiencing
Our society—and our economy—depends on trust for its very survival. So what do we do when cries of “fake news” erode our willingness to believe each other?
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Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall
To Bishop Mark Seitz the real emergency is humanitarian—a matter of deciding how best to care for the people coming to the border. “That should concern us,” he said. “This is a group of very vulnerable people.”
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Report finds no evidence of racist statements from Covington students
The investigation, conducted by Greater Cincinnati Investigation Inc., which has no connection with the high school or diocese, “demonstrated that our students did not instigate the incident that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial,” the bishop said.
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Catholics can learn a lot from Black Lives Matter
This week’s guest is Olga Segura, an associate editor at America. We discuss her article “What Black Lives Matter can teach Catholics about racial justice.” We also discuss these articles: The return of Daniel Berrigan’s ‘The Trial of the Catonsville nine’ Explainer: Former Cardinal McCarrick faces laicization. What does that mean? Andrew Cuomo and the […]
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Andrew Cuomo and the sad inheritance of ‘personal opposition’ to abortion
Both Cuomo père et fils approach the issue as political animals, and their support for abortion on demand was and is driven by Democratic party politics.
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Venezuelans in Brazil watch as a leadership crisis continues to grip their homeland
“As long as there is a dictatorship in Venezuela, it is better not to return,” said Alexander. “I feel that there is an illegitimate government, a power that literally controls everything, but also an opposition that has defrauded the people many times.”