As Catholics, we must work to block harms where we see them, do our part to build the world we want to inhabit, and embody our fundamental dignity as human beings.
US Politics
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Are we all liberal protestants?
In ‘Citizens Yet Strangers,’ Kenneth Craycraft argues that the American political order presupposes the goodness of the Fall, rather than our original created goodness.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Dear U.S. bishops: Here’s how to help JD Vance understand church teaching on migrants
Why can’t the U.S. bishops use their bully pulpit and their extensive media access to issue a public rebuke to JD Vance, as they did to Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Americans (wrongly) think faith is all about politics—and it’s hurting our country and church
Far more Americans think that faith is all about politics than is actually the case. And that misconception is harming the power of faith as an American institution.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Pope Francis told American Catholics to vote their conscience. What did he mean?
The Editors: “Rather than a claim to know conscience’s demands for everyone, it is a challenge for voters to engage in deeper reflection, prayer and dialogue.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Learning from Arendt: How the lies of the 2024 campaign could be a step toward authoritarianism
Undermining the fabric of shared reality is one of the most brutal and insidious tactics of authoritarian regimes. Christians have a moral responsibility to stand against lies.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Winter is coming in Gaza. How much worse will the misery get?
Most families have been forced to move many times and with each new displacement, families lose or abandon more belongings. Not many of them by now have clothing appropriate for worsening weather conditions.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A lesson from Punxsutawney: The United States will always be divided—and that’s O.K.
With Pennsylvania widely considered the most crucial of the seven 2024 swing states and America feeling stuck in a winter of discord haunted by the specter of political violence, I decided to report on the election from Punxsutawney.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic advocates deplore Biden administration’s asylum restrictions at the border
President Biden’s new restrictions on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border have drawn criticism from Catholics who minister to immigrants and refugees.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Vance’s ‘Christ, have mercy’ moment: Pushing past polarization on gun violence
Catholics in the audience may not have been as startled by Senator Vance’s emphatic, sympathetic invocation of the second response of the Kyrie eleison.