“These proposed changes threaten access to care for millions of Americans, particularly those in underserved areas, where our member systems work every day to provide quality, compassionate care.”
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How Pope Leo can affect American politics—in the best possible way
Leo has sought to be a uniter calling for a more peaceful world. We need leaders who remind us of what is possible, who bring out the best in us while discouraging the worst.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
JD Vance meets with Pope Leo, brings invitation from Trump to visit the U.S.
On Monday morning, Pope Leo XIV met JD Vance in the private library of the Apostolic Palace, a day after the pontiff’s inaugural Mass.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The spiritual exercises of liberalism
In ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life,’ Alexandre Lefebvre argues that for secular people, liberalism, if practiced intentionally, can be the grace they are seeking in their ordinary lives.
Posted inFaith, News
Amid immigration raids, Nashville diocese tells Catholics they don’t have to attend Sunday Mass if safety is at risk
Amid immigration raids and emptying pews, the Nashville diocese is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Mass if they fear for their well-being, according to the church’s own teaching and canon law.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump, Elon Musk and the dangers of ‘god mode’ tech powers in government
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
State laws require priests to disclose abuse revealed in confession
Washington State’s new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute between the Catholic Church and multiple U.S. states.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
At JD Vance’s meeting with the Vatican secretary of state, migration and religious freedom were on the agenda
Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.
Posted inFaith, News
JD Vance attends Good Friday liturgy at St. Peter’s Basilica
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, attended the liturgy with his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, and his three children after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in the day.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Where St. Ignatius stayed—and why
The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.