If in its first years, the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom seemed directed at the U.S. left, it is actors on the hard right who have now emerged as the most significant threat to religious freedom.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Texas executes death-row inmate despite allegations of false testimony at trial
Ivan Cantu was executed Feb. 28 by the state of Texas despite claims that his conviction was based on false testimony.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The ‘Catholic agnostic’ novelist: How Graham Greene questioned his way to God
Graham Greene crafted some of English-language literature’s finest works, part of a fascinating life marked by bouts of uncertainty and the certainty of doubt.
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
What Catholics need to model this election season
Protecting democracy is critical this year and beyond. But as Catholics we should use the power of the vote to promote the common good, rather than to protect our own interests.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Interview: A day in the life of Christian Palestinians in Gaza
“The struggle to secure our daily bread is exhausting. There is a shortage of everything. Nutritious food is non-existent. We have run out of medications and vitamins.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
No end in sight to Palestinian suffering after collapse of latest ceasefire plan
What happens in the aftermath of the I.D.F.’s Rafah assault remains hard to discern. Where do the Palestinians go next? How will they live? How will they be fed and sheltered?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Good news for immigration advocates: The Senate bill is dead. Bad news: There’s nothing else.
All but four Senate Republicans and six Democrats voted to block the bipartisan bill’s passage yesterday. The actions of members from both parties concerned immigration advocates.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Showtime’s new miniseries ‘Fellow Travelers’ explores the Red Scare, the AIDS crisis and Catholic guilt
“Fellow Travelers” is a broad and intimate depiction of late 20th century gay life and the events that shaped it.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
C.R.S. president: Palestinians in Gaza are hungry and exhausted—but also resilient
C.R.S. President Sean Callahan spent a dramatic day in Rafah, meeting with a few of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who have escaped the fighting between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Bipartisan child tax credit deal could reverse a historic spike in child poverty
The child tax credit enhancements will lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line in 2024 and move an additional 3 million U.S. children in deep poverty closer to the poverty line.