It is difficult to take the White House’s commitment to religious freedom seriously when CBS News reported that the U.S. government holds more than 59,000 people in immigration detention with uncertain access to chaplains and ministers.
Steven P. Millies
Steven P. Millies is professor of public theology and director of the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union.
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Cardinal Bernardin’s ‘Consistent Ethic of Life’ still divides Catholics 40 years later
Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to overcome.
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Pope Francis wants the synod to be a political community—but one based on faith, not interest
Most modern constitutional states today describe themselves as republics. Such republics sound as though they have a lot in common with Catholic social teaching. They do.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The war in Ukraine is exposing America’s crisis of democracy
The United States should not abandon a foreign policy that promotes free self-determination around the globe. But people who have lost faith in democracy at home may be on to something.
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Cardinal Bernardin’s legacy reminds us: Catholics can (and should) embrace the modern world.
Sunday, Nov. 14, marks 25 years since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death. Do Catholics today want a church that is “alive and rooted, public in its service to the city” and the world?
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If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today
On this 25th anniversary of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death, we can look back to him for guidance as we try to find a way out of the hostility toward dialogue we have been trapped in since the 1990s.
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Joe Biden is taking a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in his meeting with Pope Francis
At one point Ronald Reagan needed a powerful ally who could help him hold on to Catholic voters — and he found that ally in John Paul II. Today, Joe Biden faces a similar situation.
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Joe Biden, the Bishops & Vatican II: The Battle Over the Brand of U.S. Catholicism
The Catholic Church in the United States is in danger of losing its relevance if its presentation of the Gospel is alien to the world in which people live.
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After 50 years, the U.S. bishops’ focus on abortion has done little to change hearts and minds.
Steven P. Millies: A half-century of the U.S. bishops calling abortion the ‘preeminent issue’ in politics leaves Catholics unprepared for a post-Roe landscape.
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A Sacred Calling: Recovering what politics is—and is not
The pope challenges all of us to rethink our relationship to politics.