Ms. Harris clearly gained the upper hand in the contest with Mr. Trump, but it was not always clear where they stood on issues like immigration, abortion and climate change.
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Trump launches ‘Catholics for Trump’ coalition as poll shows Catholics lean Harris
In the wake of recent polling showing Kamala Harris leading among American Catholics, the Trump campaign has launched a new Catholic outreach initiative.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: American political life doesn’t need to depend on fear-mongering
Facts are the great enemy of the demagogue, as Senator McCarthy learned so many years ago.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Falling out of love with ideology during election season
Jason Blakely’s new book, “Lost in Ideology,” is “quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies,” writes William Cavanaugh. “Blakely is concise, sympathetic, insightful, critical and fair.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Democrats’ abortion strategy: Seek converts or punish heretics?
The abortion issue is emblematic of a larger problem within the Democratic Party—an obsession with ideological purity that has proven to be both counterproductive and divisive.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The future of Catholic politics after Joe Biden
For many Catholic Democrats, President Biden is the zenith of public faith. For many Catholic Republicans, he represents a betrayal of the Gospel. The truth is somewhere in between, and that is OK.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
What a Jesuit saw at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.
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Cardinal Cupich offers invocation at DNC in Chicago as second Catholic president Joe Biden passes on the torch
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, prayed for God’s guidance in ‘this new chapter of our nation’s history’ as Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.
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As the Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, lessons from an eerily similar year: 1968
Public events take place today in 2024 that are eerily comparable to situations in another critical year: 1968. But our current situation, like 1968, is a moment when our faith can make a difference in history and in our own memories.
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Celebrities: We don’t care who you’re voting for
It is not selfish to do what you are good at and then to show a degree of humility about other things—including politics and other fields of expertise.