On Facebook, Gloria Purvis writes: Racist caricatures have always circulated in American life. What makes this a crisis is that it came from the presidency—the office that symbolically represents the entire nation. When a private citizen posts a racist meme, it reveals individual sin. When the President does it, it functions as a signal from… Read More The Harm Inflicted by Trump’s Latest Racist Action

New NY Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks via RNS: “This is a call to be a missionary church, not a country club,” he said. “A club exists to serve its members. The church exists, on the other hand, to go out and serve all people — on fire, with faith, with hope and charity in the… Read More A Missionary Church, Not a Country Club

The Catholic Bishops of California, via the California Catholic Conference: At a moment when people are exercising their First Amendment rights to protest and seek accountability, violence only deepens wounds and erodes the foundations of peace and public trust. We echo our brother bishops’ call for restraint, transparency, and respect for the dignity of every… Read More California Bishops: Deportation Alone is Not an Immigration Strategy

John Carr, founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, in a recent interview with OSV News: I grew up in South Minneapolis and I am heartbroken by the recent killings, the children shot at Annunciation Parish and the death of George Floyd so close to my neighborhood. And… Read More If Faithful Catholics Are Politically Homeless, We Need to Build a Home

In a new interview with the New York Times, Fr. James Martin was asked: “The number of Gen-Z Catholics is actually increasing, right? That’s according to a recent Harvard study. [Other data shows that] young churchgoers seem to participate more deeply in the church than perhaps their older counterparts. They go to confession more. They… Read More Fr. James Martin on Gen Z Catholics and the Church