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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
As the United States marks the 35th World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, domestic politics threaten the future of one of the nation's most successful global health initiatives, which is credited with keeping millions of people alive.
Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis attends a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Disagreement about how strongly to describe the bishops’ opposition to abortion mirrors a similar debate in 2019.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Terence Sweeney
Pro-lifers need to seriously consider what defeats at the ballot box mean—and ask themselves why recent legal successes have not translated into democratic successes.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Ohio becomes the seventh state whose voters have chosen to protect access to abortion through the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year.
The children of single mother Jessica Moreno of Wood Dale, Ill., (Julian, 16, Jenesis, 6, and Jayden, 12) are seen in an undated photo. Ms. Moreno used a series of $750-a-month checks under the temporarily expanded child tax credit program to rent an apartment for herself and her children and avoid becoming homeless. (CNS photo/courtesy Jessica Moreno)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
The child poverty rate was cut almost in half after an expansion of the child tax credit. So why did Congress, including many in the pro-life movement, let the expansion lapse?
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John J. Conley, S.J.
I was saddened but not surprised by the pro-abortion position of the dramatists guild.