via USCCB: We thank God for the blessings of liberty. The American people have spoken in this election. Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good…. Democracy requires that all of us conduct ourselves as… Read More US Bishops Congratulate Joe Biden on Winning the 2020 Presidential Election
Pope Francis: “We must fight corruption with determination. It is an evil based on the worship of money and it offends human dignity.”
The votes are still being tallied in the 2020 elections, but Fr. James Martin has already offered a simple reminder about the task ahead: What is our task? In many ways, it is same as before the election: to work for the dignity of all human life: the unborn, the migrant and refugee, the Black… Read More What is Our Task After the Election?
Pope Francis: “If we abandon the law of love, the law of the strongest over the weakest will be asserted.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The New Integralists by Timothy Troutner: “The book should alert a complacent Catholic theological establishment that ideas once thought dead and buried are resurgent. Integralism clearly breaks with Vatican II’s teaching on religious liberty and expresses a commitment to the political disenfranchisement (or worse) of women,… Read More Around the Web
When surveying the various Catholic arguments over which presidential candidate deserves the support of American Catholics, a revealing pattern quickly emerges. Catholics write compellingly about the immorality of abortion, racism, family separation at the border, the use of force on peaceful protestors, and the death penalty. Many Catholics clearly understand ourselves within a moral universe,… Read More When Voting, Issues Matter But Protecting American Democracy is Essential
Bishop John Stowe writes: Many prominent Catholics, including clerics, have taken to social media and other outlets to denounce those who would vote for one or the other party. Some seem to want to make the moral decision for everyone else and have proclaimed that voting for a particular candidate is either a matter of… Read More Bishop Stowe: Neither Party Consistently Defends Life
