Heidi Schlumpf has a new article that asks if US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is whole life, featuring the responses of a few whole life Catholic commentators. She notes that “Catholics are not monolithic, some will be happy with Kavanaugh, while others have serious concerns.” This is, of course, true. Catholics don’t fit into… Read More Evaluating Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh through a Whole Life Prism

via the Montana Standard: The attendance of four Roman Catholic priests from Montana at President Donald Trump’s political rally in Great Falls Thursday has created a social media firestorm and apparently incurred the displeasure of the priests’ superiors in the church. The four, who were seated near the front of the rally, wore their clerical… Read More Bishop Comments on Imprudence of MAGA Priests at Trump Rally

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville writes: The Social Justice magisterium is particularly subject to dismemberment into lesser, purely political parts if we do not sustain a concerted effort to connect the teaching to the person of Christ from whom it flows…. Pope Francis speaks of the “throwaway culture”, as a description that encompasses all that… Read More Radical Care Must Replace Our Throwaway Culture

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Daniel Misleh, and Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo write: Pope Francis recently convened oil and gas corporation executives and investors to share some hard truths about fossil fuels and catastrophic climate change. In doing so, the Holy Father extended the Christian tradition of witnessing challenging truths to the public and influential members of society.… Read More Pope Francis Tells Oil and Gas Execs to Address Climate Change

via USCCB: Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, expressed disappointment in today’s Supreme Court decision on Janus v. AFSCME. The 5-4 decision struck down an Illinois law that required non-union workers to pay fees that go to collective bargaining, overturning… Read More US Bishops Disappointed by Supreme Court’s Attack on Unions

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