via USCCB: Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration, and Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, chair of the USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty, issued the following joint statement: “The travel ban targets Muslims for exclusion, which goes against our country’s core principle of… Read More US Bishops Disappointed by Supreme Court’s Failure to Protect Religious Freedom in Travel Ban Case

Michael Wear writes: The rhetoric around independents is and has been quite bold and self-congratulatory. It goes: Independents are citizens who have the moral courage to declare a pox on both houses, and the capacity for free-thinking that enables them to say “no” to the partisan options that have been presented to us; they chart… Read More Don’t Be an Independent, Join a Political Party

via Vatican News: He explained how Jesus’ words about women were radical and ground-breaking and “changed history.”  This was because up until then, a woman was considered “a second class citizen,” she was “enslaved” and “did not even enjoy complete freedom,” he said. Jesus’ doctrine about women changes history. Before Jesus the view about women… Read More Pope Francis: Jesus’ Doctrine about Women Changed History

via the Washington Post: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Trump has the authority to ban travelers from certain majority-Muslim countries if he thinks it is necessary to protect the United States, a victory in what has been a priority since Trump’s first weeks in office and a major affirmation of presidential power. The… Read More Despite Trump’s Anti-Muslim Statements, Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban

In a recent speech, Pope Francis said: If we are to eliminate poverty and hunger, as called for by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the more than one billion people without electricity today need to gain access to it. But that energy should also be clean, by a reduction in the systematic use of… Read More Pope Francis Describes How the Poor Suffer the Most from Climate Change

Tony Reali, host of the ESPN show Around the Horn, recently lost one of his twin sons, Amadeo, prior to childbirth, while his wife delivered his other son Enzo, who is currently healthy and home from the hospital. Reali, a practicing Catholic who has written about wearing ashes on the air on Ash Wednesday, reflected… Read More Amadeo Means God’s Love: Tony Reali on the Loss of His Son

via Vatican News: Pope Francis pointed out that even today this method of slanderous communication is used in many countries.  Media and communication law is brushed aside with the entire communication system handed to a company or a group that weakens democratic life with slander and falsehood. The judges then condemn these weakened institutions and… Read More Pope: Dictatorships Begin with Slanderous Communication and the Destruction of the Free Press