After another Trump victory, I thought about tuning out of politics. Then I remembered that I do not have that luxury. I am a Catholic.
US Politics
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
To help the pro-life cause, the U.S. bishops should acknowledge the third-party option
In their “Faithful Citizenship” document, the bishops should recognize options like the American Solidarity Party and challenge the assumption that we must choose between Democrats and Republicans.
Posted inFaith, News
Supreme Court to hear Catholic agency’s religious exemption case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 13 agreed to hear a case from the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, in which the agency argued a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court discounted its religious identity.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
A Catholic guide to migration ethics in the Trump era
Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. President will surely raise significant questions about the ethics of migration policies. How might we resist extremism and polarization while retaining a commitment to the church’s teaching on the dignity of all peoples?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What comes next? A moral theologian’s 5 post-election takeaways
Five matters have been on my mind in the weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election, each of them connected to my work as a moral theologian.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The legacy of Mario Cuomo’s famous (and flawed) abortion speech, 40 years later
He might not have intended to, but Mario Cuomo paved the way for the Pilate-like indifference of so many Catholic politicians to abortion today.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Can Americans still communicate across difference? That’s our work—even after the 2024 election.
In the language of Catholic social teaching, we might say that voters doubt whether the political system in which they participate sustains the common good.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholics react to Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of son Hunter
“Joe Biden said one thing and did the opposite. A father’s love meant more to the president than keeping his word.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Border enforcement policies are effective—at driving up migrant deaths
Enforcement tactics do not in the end deter asylum seekers, who are typically fleeing life-threatening circumstances, but stricter enforcement does push border crossers to more dangerous paths.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
As foreign born numbers spike in Europe and America, xenophobia goes global
Around the affluent world, new hostility, resentment and anxiety has been directed at immigrant populations that are emerging as preferred scapegoats for all manner of political and socio-economic shortcomings.