Working for a just wage remains a human and moral imperative, Cardinal Seán O’Malley said.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Fort Lauderdale airport shooting reflects our out of control gun laws
The Sunshine State, a.k.a. the Gunshine State, considers itself a Second Amendment haven.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Meet the Jesuit chaplain who prays for Congress. He could use your help.
I will see two people talking and pray: “Lord, whatever that is please bless that. Don’t even know what it is.”
Posted inCulture, Politics & Society
Can Obama’s policies survive a Trump regime?
After decades of books that described presidential campaigns as thrill rides, political scientists have begun to push back.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Donald Trump has some choice words for a wind farm that spoils his view in Scotland
President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland’s first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.
Posted inOpinion, Politics & Society
The politics of abortion will get more complicated in 2017
Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Tobin calls on Catholics to move away from ‘hot button’ issues
Cardinal Tobin said that Christians must be marked by their willingness to show “kindness to all: to the searching young and the forgotten elderly, to the stranger and the voiceless, to the powerful and the cynical.”
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Women hold the keys to making Washington work again.
Do not expect a return to the days when comity could be coaxed with a little (or a lot) of bourbon and branch.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Your Take: Trump’s first 100 days
We asked our readers what issues should President-Elect Donald J. Trump focus on in his first 100 days as president.