The words ‘abortion’ or ‘Trump’ weren’t mentioned—but both loomed large.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Conservatives should support Joe Biden’s call to expand the child tax credit
The human species, by definition, depends on future adults, which are also known as children. Let’s help families who raise them.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Pope Francis and President Milei had a public reconciliation. U.S. politicians should learn from them.
As we head into what is sure to be a rancorous general election in the United States, what might we learn from the relationship between the pope and president?
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
‘Nobody wants to stay in this hell’: The moral call of Haiti
Jean Denis Saint-Félix, S.J.: “Nobody wants to stay in this hell. People are seeking ways to enter, no matter how, the United States,” even “knowing the danger and risks they go through.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Most voters oppose a Biden-Trump rematch. Our primary system made it all but inevitable.
In a year that is supposedly a test of “small-d” democracy, the voice of the voters seems fainter than ever.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Archbishop García-Siller: Catholics voting in the 2024 election must ask, ‘Who is my neighbor?’
Christians are not a social club that gathers on Sundays to receive nice-sounding catchphrases. We are to influence the heart of society.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
President Biden’s broken promise on the death penalty
The people who can abolish the death penalty are our policymakers. And it appears Mr. Biden is comfortable leaving it in place.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Catholic charities and religious freedom are under fire at the border
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.
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.