Around the Horn host Tony Reali writes in the Washington Post: I’ve been on national television for 16 years and for all 16 I wore an ash on Ash Wednesday. I am grateful to ESPN and fortunate to work in an environment that allows me to be myself. But it’s shocking to me that I’m… Read More ESPN’s Tony Reali on Why He Wears Ashes on TV
Former presidents often avoid criticizing their successors in office, but George W. Bush has broken from that trend this week. In response to a question about Donald Trump referring to the mainstream media as the enemy of the American people, Bush defended the media’s key role as a democratic check on power: I consider the… Read More George W. Bush Breaks from Tradition, Challenges Trump on Media, Russian Interference, Islam
via Chicago Tribune: Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told priests Tuesday that if federal immigration authorities knock on the doors of their parishes without a warrant, priests should turn them away and call the archdiocese’s lawyers. Catholic school principals have been told to do the same. “If they do not have a warrant and it is… Read More Cardinal Cupich: No Immigration Agents on Church Property Without Warrants
On Fox News yesterday, I said that President Donald Trump should give up his wall and refugee ban for Lent. To do so as Lent begins, when Christians begin the commemoration of Jesus’ entry into the fullness of human suffering and dysfunction, would be a visible sign that the President honors those who—like Jesus Christ… Read More Donald Trump Should Give up His Wall and Refugee Ban for Lent
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option in Democracy: Christians who engage in politics have reason to engage beyond their own interests; politics can’t save one’s soul, but it can decree that children receive health care, or that poor families be able to purchase food, or that… Read More Withdrawing from Politics is Not the Right Option for Christians
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’
As nativism and xenophobia grow stronger in the United States, Fr. James Martin explains what the Bible says about refugees, migrants, and foreigners and that the responsibilities we have as Christians are clear.
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