via Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: It’s sometimes difficult to be both a committed Republican or Democrat and a committed Catholic. In the United States, neither party’s priorities reflect the full range of Catholic social teaching, and at the same time, political parties are powerful tools for organizing citizens around particular… Read More Can Catholics Be Faithful and Partisan?
Check out these recent articles from around the web: As Fellow Pro-Lifers, We Are Begging Marco Rubio to Save Foreign Aid by Leah Libresco Sargeant, Matthew Loftus, Kristin M. Collier, and Kathryn Jean Lopez: “PEPFAR is the kind of world-reshaping project that only America can achieve. In the next 50 years, we should see the… Read More Around the Web
Christopher White writes: After all, this is a pontiff who chose to visit the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa on his very first trip outside of Rome following his election as pope to pay tribute to the lives of migrants lost at sea and spotlight the “globalization of indifference” towards their plight. So this week, on Feb.… Read More Pope Francis Challenges Trump-Vance on Immigration, Bad Theology
via PBS NewsHour: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the ongoing challenge to constitutional guardrails and the position of the United States on the global stage.
Check out these recent articles from around the web: How democracy survives through standing together by Chris Crawford: “Our democracy’s survival will require sacrifice. We must be willing to do so with mercy, selflessness, and love.” Dear influencers: We are not built for this much intimacy by Elise Ureneck: “But we are not built for… Read More Around the Web
Christopher Hale writes: On Sunday, Vance launched a scathing critique of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—an umbrella organization of the bishops who lead the Catholic Church in America—accusing them of having financial motivations for their opposition to the administration’s new immigration policy, which permits ICE raids in churches and schools…. The bishops, long… Read More MAGA’s Catholic Problem
Pope Francis: “Let us forcefully reaffirm today that the seeds of anti-Semitism must never again be allowed to take root in the human heart. Remembering the suffering and tears of the victims of the Holocaust, let us repeat: never again!”
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