Currently, 27 states and the District of Columbia have some type of school choice measure in place and a number of states have legislation on the table for this year.
US Politics
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Once accepted, now denied, Syrian refugees in Jordan frustrated with Trump action
Trump’s action slapped a 90-day ban on all entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries with terrorism concerns.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Fr. James Martin: Why I advocate for refugees
I’m not a political person, but I am a Christian, and I feel compelled to speak out on this issue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
March for Life 2017
A renewed sense of hope and a commitment to a “wholelife” approach characterized March for Life 2017.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Prayers for life surround the March for Life
Cardinal Dolan: “We come together this sacred evening in a church we claim as a sanctuary…to reclaim the belief that a mother’s womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby must be safe, secure, nurtured and protected.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
President Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities is un-American, Newark cardinal says
Cardinal Tobin: “Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts…. Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities.”
Posted inPolitics & Society
Pro-life student groups pack the Jesuit Mass for Life
The Mass attracted pro-life student groups from across the nation who are in Washington for the March for Life.
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A college professor and a cop ask, ‘Who are the elites, anyway?’
Elites are defined less by the position they hold than by their pretense to dictate reality.
Posted inMagazine, Your Take
The Letters
Religious education has been a babysitting service for far too long.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Alternative facts and the coming constitutional crisis
We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.