Check out these recent articles from around the web: Trump’s ‘forgotten man’ turns out to be Goldman Sachs by Michael Sean Winters: “President Trump and Speaker Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell are busy letting Wall Street off the hook. We know where this led before.” The ‘best fortnight in a decade’ for conservatives? Uh-oh. by… Read More Around the Web
In his remarks at the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bishop Robert McElroy described what he views as the fundamental political question of our age and explains where Catholic Social Teaching stands on the matter: The fundamental political question of our age is whether our economic structures and systems in the United States… Read More The Fundamental Political Question: Increasingly Unfettered Capitalism vs. An Economy That Respects Human Dignity
Pope Francis: “How often in the Bible the Lord asks us to welcome migrants and foreigners, reminding us that we too are foreigners!”
At the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego delivered a strong message: President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter, he said. Well now, we must all become disrupters. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the… Read More Bishop Robert McElroy: Now We Must All Become Disrupters
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
via the AP: The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press. The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far… Read More Trump May Mobilize 100,000 National Guard Troops to Round Up Unauthorized Immigrants
Pope Francis has sent a powerful letter to the participants of the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements. Here are some highlights: For some time, the crisis of the prevailing paradigm has confronted us. I am speaking of a system that causes enormous suffering to the human family, simultaneously assaulting people’s dignity and our… Read More “The Gutting of Democracies is Real”: Pope Francis Sends Strong Message to Grassroots Leaders
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