The goal is not to make sure everyone is safe and secure. It is to enable a few people to do really, really well.
US Politics
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Politicians love to quote Reinhold Niebuhr. James Comey actually gets him.
James Comey is perhaps a better Niebuhrian than Niebuhr himself.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Racism is a sickness of the soul. Can Jesuit spirituality help us heal?
What ought to be the Ignatian contribution to the fight for racial justice, given our mission and our values?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic eco-activists frustrated that U.S. left behind as climate change efforts negotiated in Bonn
“What we need to do is just continue to live out the challenge of ‘Laudato Si’,’ which is to examine our relationship with the earth, with God and with each other to see how we can become better stewards of this gift of the earth.”
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Steve Bannon: St. Ignatius helped me get sober
In response to a query from America, Steve Bannon said, “The daily examen has become a tool for me to lead a better, more fulfilled life.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court to hear case on free speech, abortion and crisis pregnancy centers
It will be the first abortion-related case heard by the court with Neil Gorsuch on the bench.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Joe Biden’s Catholic faith is on full display on his current book tour
Joe Biden may be a presidential candidate in waiting, but now he seems to have found a truly valuable role as a father.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Bishops (again) object to G.O.P. tax plan’s effects on the poor
“No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits for wealthy citizens.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
In the fight against oligarchy, our best weapon is the Constitution
Ganesh Sitaraman offers a wide-ranging treatment of economic, political and constitutional developments across three centuries of the American experience in Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Nuclear disarmament now a ‘moral imperative’ as Pope Francis rejects deterrence
Pope Francis condemned not only the threat of nuclear weapons but also “their very possession” in a landmark statement on Nov. 10.