Catholic high school girls in Queens, NY harassing African-Americans on a NYC bus, suggesting they move to the back of the bus now that Trump is president. The Muslim center at New York University being vandalized. Multiple stories from across the nation of young Muslim women having their hijabs pulled off and ethnic slurs thrown… Read More Unity in Trump’s America Must Begin with Protecting Vulnerable Communities
The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University hosted an event Thursday night: Election 2016: What Happened, Why, and What Does It Mean?. The panel was moderated by John Carr and featured Robert Costa, E.J. Dionne, and Michael Gerson of the Washington Post… Read More How Did Trump Win, Why, and What Does It Mean?
That the countries which take in a great number of displaced persons and refugees may find support for their efforts, which show solidarity:
Thank God that’s over. For the better part of two years now we have endured the grating sounds of the presidential candidates’ name-calling and heckling. We have listened to them criticize each other’s worst flaws and those of their supporters. Week after week we have been told that America has lost its greatness, that it… Read More Thank God the Election Is Over…Except It Isn’t
MSW on “the disaster that we chose“: Shock. It is the emotional reaction that has accompanied Donald Trump’s campaign from its start and it reached its climax last night. The country has administered a severe disaster to itself. The trappings of democracy cannot obscure the moral enormity, nor ameliorate the sense of disgust: This is… Read More MSW, Catholic Scholars React to Trump’s Victory
To function well, the institutional structures of modern constitutional democracies require a type of categorical commitment from its citizens. Citizens must treat constitutional norms and procedures as providing good reasons for action independently of any particular preferences or desired policies. Trump’s comments at the recent debate – “I will tell you at the time; I… Read More What Will the Stability of our Political Institutions Be Like After Trump?
via AP: Pope Francis held a special Jubilee Mass for prisoners in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, telling them that all people “have made mistakes” and urging them to never give up hope in God’s mercy…. Wearing green robes and a white skull cap, Francis stood before a congregation made up of some 1,000 prisoners… Read More Pope Francis Holds Mass for 1,000 Prisoners
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