Government action at every level has caused segregated housing and its ugly effects in the United States.
US Politics
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Thousands of faith leaders ask Congress to protect Johnson Amendment
“Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,” reads the letter faith leaders sent to protect church-state separation.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Charlottesville and Trump: A spiritual exercise for the overwhelmed and exhausted
How do you continue to “bear witness” when every three or four days there is another crisis?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
An open letter to Trump voters from a concerned Catholic priest
I have read about you in the papers and seen you on television. But the reality is I still do not understand you.
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How the Catholic response to Charlottesville moved from pleas for unity to condemnations of racism
A second statement from the U.S. bishops read: “We stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
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Is voting a public or a private act? (Your ballot is not as secret as you think)
Our information has been or soon will be made available to the Presidential Advisory Commission.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Should Democrats fund pro-life candidates to retake the House? Some say yes.
California Gov. Jerry Brown says a ‘big tent’ party should have room for Democrats opposed to abortion.
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Bishops in ‘strong opposition’ to Trump-backed plan that would sharply reduce legal immigration
“It’s all part of their nativist agenda,” Kevin Appleby said. “The pattern is clear: Deport Latinos, ban Muslims and now this bill would prevent Asians and Africans from entering the country.”
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From the “Confessions” to Conversion: Elizabeth Breunig’s path to Catholicism
This week’s podcast features Elizabeth Bruenig, a contributing writer for America. Her recent article is called “How Augustine’s Confessions and left politics inspired my conversion to Catholicism.” “I was always interested in Christianity. Even as a kid I was active in my church,” Bruenig said. But what was lacking in her Protestant upbringing was the […]
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Threats to Deport Dreamers Are Cruel and Shortsighted
Immigration policy in the United States is dispiritingly divisive, but there is one bright line that few voters want to cross.