As President Trump tweaks his refugee ban in the hopes of it surviving legal challenges, here’s a reminder of the many reasons to oppose any refugee ban: It’s immoral and un-American. It violates Christian moral principles and turns away from the American aspiration of being the land of the free and the home of the… Read More Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Trump’s Refugee Ban
Amnesty International has released a report on one site (Saydnaya prison) where top Syrian officials approved the torture and execution of thousands of Syrians. The Syrian Grand Mufti’s complicity highlights the utter foolishness of those “pro-peace” Catholics that spread his propaganda about desiring peace in 2013, even though he had threatened the West with suicide… Read More Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’
Stephen Colbert appears to have found his groove at the Late Show. In the video below, he tears apart Donald Trump’s unhinged press conference. While self-loathing progressives and mushy moderates worry that comedians mocking Trump’s flagrant ignorance and evisceration of democratic norms is somehow undermining their farcical, one-sided attempts at generating dialogue with people who… Read More Stephen Colbert Offers Intellectual and Moral Clarity in Response to Trump
As a certain group of right-wing American Catholics continues to promote free market fundamentalism—sometimes very amiably with rhetorical commitments to a (diminished) social safety net and maybe even with a nod to an increase in the earned income tax credit—Pope Francis has once again affirmed the Church’s fundamental opposition to this ideology (however cleverly marketed)… Read More Pope Francis Challenges Profit-Obsessed Capitalism and Our Complacency
Social isolation has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. And it’s killing us—quite literally: Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, more inflammation and higher levels of stress hormones. One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent.… Read More Still Need a New Year’s Resolution? Love More, Better
Streets in Aleppo are filled with the bombed, burned, and shot bodies of innocent civilians—the result of the latest atrocities perpetrated by a regime that has killed over 450,000 people with the assistance of its murderous allies. US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power placed these atrocities in their proper historical context: Aleppo will join… Read More Assad, Iran, Russia: “Are You Truly Incapable of Shame?”
In response to a recent white nationalist conference in Washington DC, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offered an important reminder and request: The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens, our religious and civic leaders, and the leadership of all branches of the government… Read More Will the Bishops Take On the Alt-Right’s Bigotry?
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