A few weeks ago, a CNN poll showed that 85% of Americans reported the country is more divided now than in recent years. More than half said they are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in our country. January 20, 2017 will be a microcosm of our divided nation: millions of Americans will be… Read More Faithful Discipleship: Beyond Resistance to President Trump
For her commitment to justice for the victims of genocide, mass atrocities, sexual violence, and human trafficking, along with her calls for action to protect the innocent from ISIS, our 2016 Millennial of the Year is Nadia Murad. A Yazidi, living in Iraq at the time, Nadia was kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS in 2014.… Read More Millennial of the Year 2016: Nadia Murad
Emma Green reports: Pro-life women are headed to D.C. Yes, they’ll turn out for the annual March for Life, which is coming up on January 27. But one week earlier, as many as a few hundred pro-lifers are planning to attend the Women’s March on Washington, which has been billed as feminist counterprogramming to the… Read More Is There Room for Pro-Life Feminists at the Women’s March on Washington?
On January 1, Sean Callahan became the new president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services. Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly traveled to Haiti with Callahan last November in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and spoke with Callahan about his humanitarian mission, his concerns about the anti-refugee climate in America, and what he learned… Read More Watch: Great Interview with New CEO of Catholic Relief Services
Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of the USCCB committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development sent a letter to GOP Congressional leadership: A repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate healthcare for the millions of people who… Read More USCCB to GOP Leaders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement, Pursue Universal Coverage
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new column at America: It appears likely that pro-life activists will spend the next few years waging a legal war against abortion, while pro-choice activists mount a renewed culture war in an attempt to undercut the energy behind those efforts. With few pro-life voices or think tanks producing… Read More What the Politics of Abortion Will Look Like in 2017
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Russian aggression: “Having defeated the forces of fascism and communism, we now confront the forces of authoritarianism and nihilism.”
