If Catholic leaders seriously want to push gun control legislation, what might a concerted campaign look like?
US Politics
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Catholic parish in Parkland preaches love the first Sunday after the massacre
In the midst of the unimaginable, Father Ekiert is telling his parishioners to show and live love daily—not just in a time of grief and horror.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Can students of the Parkland massacre make a difference in U.S. gun debate?
This time the victims themselves are not having it. From the moment the first shots rang out, they captured the horror and broadcast it, forced the nation to confront it and talk about it.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Trump’s budget proposal rejected by U.S. church leaders
To the consternation of humanitarian, health and civic activists, the budget proposal includes deep cuts or restructuring of international aid and social service programs.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A crisis of legitimacy continues in Honduras
Father Moreno described the Hernández government as an authoritarian regime tilting toward a dictatorship. “It is a government that represents a threat to freedom of expression. It is a threat to defenders of human rights, and it is a government that threatens the fundamental rights of Honduran citizens.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Puerto Rico to receive $11 billion in disaster aid. Advocates warn it won’t be enough.
Some of the poorest parts of the island remain cut off from the transportation and energy infrastructure.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
To save public debate, we must rescue academic philosophy from its self-induced irrelevance.
Moral crises are preceded by metaphysical and epistemological confusion. In other words, the cause of the present lies in our past.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholics gather at U.S. Capitol to pray lawmakers will protect the Dreamers
A group of priests, religious, young immigrants and their supporters gathered outside of the U.S. Capitol to pray for the Dreamers, whose lives are in limbo, and for the legislators who have the power to change their situation.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic leaders push Congress to protect social programs as budget deadline approaches
Advocates are concerned that Congress is willing to cut the programs to offset an expected $1 trillion deficit.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal Tobin: Christians must recognize humanity of immigrants, refugees
“We forget where we came from, not just as the early Christian church, but also as a country.”