The United States strives to both honor and assist our wounded veterans; but how do we treat our enemies?
US Politics
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic women call for expanded notion of “family values.”
The statement was signed by more than 70 women active in various Catholic ministries.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Election 2016: What would Alexander Hamilton do?
Hamilton was a New Yorker, a lawyer like Hillary Clinton and a business investor like Donald Trump.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Washington Front
Does your Catholic faith shape your politics, or is it the other way around?
We need more faithful Catholics running for office and more outreach to Catholic voters.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Trump and Clinton to trade jokes instead of barbs at Al Smith dinner
“You can accomplish a lot more by inviting folks of different political loyalties to an uplifting evening, rather than in closing the door to them.”
Posted inFirst Monday, Politics & Society
What the Wells Fargo scandal and Edward Snowden have in common
It is time to improve our nation’s whistleblower and false claims laws.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Is there a ‘Trump effect’ on public morality?
U.S. voters—especially evangelicals—appear to have vanquished their inner Puritan and are now far more accepting of sinning politicians.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
How to protest like a Catholic Worker
What you’re against—war, consumerism, global warming—is only half of the equation.
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
The way Wells Fargo treated its employees is the real scandal
Wells Fargo reports that over the last five years it has terminated 5,300 employees for “inappropriate sales conduct.” Not one of the bank’s top managers received a pink slip.