You can check out my Fox News debate with Donald Trump’s Catholic advisor Matt Smith on tonight’s Vice Presidential debate here: Drawing on my recent experiences on the border of Syria and Lebanon, I challenged his suggestion that Mike Pence’s position of rejecting Syrian was well within the Catholic moral framework. Let’s set the record straight: that’s… Read More How do the VP Candidates Differ on Religious Issues?
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles has released a video supporting Proposition 62, the California measure to repeal the death penalty:
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Single by Default by Jessica Keating: “Perhaps my single life, like so many others, is not a vocation. Yet I am also called to holiness today, now, here.” What Assad and Putin are doing in Syria “is not counter-terrorism. It is barbarism.” by Jennifer Williams: “There… Read More Around the Web
John Kenneth White is a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America, who has written extensively on the American party system, elections, and the US presidency. His most recent book is What Happened to the Republican Party?: And What It Means for American Presidential Politics. Millennial writer Daniel Petri and editor Robert Christian asked… Read More Trump is the ‘Most Flawed Candidate Ever’: An Interview with John Kenneth White
Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Instead of using his visit to America to strictly lecture politicians and the public about the moral failures of a nation that has drifted far from upholding Catholic ideals about life and family, Francis offered us something to aspire to. In pointing to… Read More Pope Francis Delivered Inspiration, Not Lectures in the US
via Zenit: His Excellency Reuven Rivlin President of the State of Israel I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of His Excellency Shimon Peres, and I wish to convey to you and to all the people of Israel my heartfelt condolences. I fondly recall my time with Mr Peres at the Vatican and… Read More Pope Francis’ Telegram to Israel on the Passing of Shimon Peres
Pope Francis: “Jesus is calling you to leave your mark on life: one that transforms your own life and the lives of others.”
