Americans should reject the false choice between an uncritical celebration and a despair that is blind to the country’s virtues.
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The ‘Manosphere’ and the formation of moral conscience
The Christian tradition has always affirmed asceticism, discipline and sacrifice. In the secular manosphere, however, these goods are severed from humility or empathy, as well as any sense of communion.
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Trump’s celebrations of America at 250 add up to a false unity. St. Augustine shows a different way.
National unity based on the exclusion or oppression of certain groups is inherently divisive. It obscures the complexity of our history and culture.
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The new know-nothings? Anti-Catholic political rhetoric is making a comeback
At least one prominent Christian nationalist leader envisions an America in which a “Virgin Mary parade” would be illegal.
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DOJ to join Catholic nuns’ suit on NY gender identity law for long-term care facilities
The state law mandates that nursing homes use a resident’s chosen name/pronouns and honor rooming requests based on gender identity.
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Archbishop Wenski: The fate of Haitian migrants lies with the Senate
Protections for Haitians in the United States will soon end because the administration has determined, inexplicably, that “country conditions” have improved sufficiently for Haitians to be sent home. Yet Haiti remains a country on the brink.
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Survey: Pope Leo is very popular—though partisan polarization is growing
Broken down across party lines, 84% of U.S. Catholics who lean Democratic approved of Leo in Thursday’s poll, as did 72% of Catholics who lean Republican.
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500 years later, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico still stirs controversy on both sides of the Atlantic
While many Mexicans consider Cortés a rapacious historical villain, Hispanophiles, both in Spain and across the Americas, lionize him for bringing Catholicism and Spanish culture to Mesoamerica.
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Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them.
Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 dioceses that minister to the thousands of people.
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Not feeling celebratory as America turns 250? Read John Courtney Murray’s work.
Not since Murray’s death in 1967 have national events made his thought more freshly relevant than today.