I am left to wonder if national identity leads many to put country before God, and to see papal teaching as pious sentiment rather than an authentic expression of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the world today.
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Dear James Talarico: No, the Annunciation does not justify abortion
Some traditions are too sacred to be politicized. The Annunciation is one of them.
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Jesuit priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees as border dynamics change
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Strassburger, S.J., has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
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‘Your homework is to tell someone you love them today’: Colman McCarthy’s lessons in peace
Colman McCarthy, who died on Feb. 27 at the age of 87, had a well-deserved reputation for seeking out the underdogs in life—as well as for his determined lifelong stands against war, capital punishment, homelessness and the other seamy sides of contemporary capitalism.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero
Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States, speaking against war-making and mass deportation.
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The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church
On issue after issue, the U.S. government has contradicted recent Catholic teaching—and not subtly, but by flaunting its acts of opposition.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’
Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
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Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders
In a pastoral letter on March 15, Bishop Mark Seitz urged immigration enforcement agents not to follow illegal orders and denounced the “grave moral evil” of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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Our readers on the moral resistance to Trump’s ‘politics of rage’
“The federal government’s approach is out of all proportion to the scope of the problem of a small percentage of undocumented immigrants that have committed crimes.”
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Archbishop Warda on Iran war: A refuge for Christians in Iraq is now under threat
A painful irony today is that Erbil—once a refuge for displaced Christian families—has become one of the Iraqi cities most frequently exposed to missile and drone attacks as war between U.S.-Israel and Iran continues.