via Biden-Harris Transition: President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis. The President-elect thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world. The President-elect expressed his desire to work together on the… Read More Pope Francis Congratulates Joe Biden on Winning the Presidency

Highlights from Pope Francis in chapter 5 of Fratelli Tutti: The development of a global community of fraternity based on the practice of social friendship on the part of peoples and nations calls for a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good. (154) But this can degenerate into an… Read More Pope Francis on Avoiding Unhealthy Populism and Dogmatic Neoliberalism

via USCCB: We thank God for the blessings of liberty. The American people have spoken in this election. Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good…. Democracy requires that all of us conduct ourselves as… Read More US Bishops Congratulate Joe Biden on Winning the 2020 Presidential Election

The votes are still being tallied in the 2020 elections, but Fr. James Martin has already offered a simple reminder about the task ahead: What is our task? In many ways, it is same as before the election: to work for the dignity of all human life: the unborn, the migrant and refugee, the Black… Read More What is Our Task After the Election?