As an Ebola outbreak continues to advance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country’s bishops fear that responses to the epidemic are being complicated by increased rebel attacks. The deadly disease and militia […]
In Kenya, Catholic bishops have joined with leaders of other faiths in an effort to reform and stabilize the East African nation, amid concerns that public, social, and private institutions are facing a serious legitimacy […]
Opening a new front in the abortion wars, some of Connecticut’s progressive politicians have now taken aim at the state’s crisis pregnancy centers. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin is now targeting the city’s pregnancy support centers with […]
American conservatism is in an odd place. Politically it is ascendant, with the ostensibly conservative Republican Party in control of the national government and most of the states. Culturally, it is marginalized, with its opponents […]
In theory, the views of everyday liberals emphasize fairness, tolerance, dialogue, and mutual understanding. In practice, those things are becoming scarcer. […]
Increasingly, politics becomes performative bloodsport, along the lines of professional wrestling, with citizens playing the role of titillated fans howling from the bleachers. […]
Catholic citizens have an indispensable contribution to make to the national discourse in the present day, one that could prove to be the salvation of […]
The sheer ferocity of contemporary politics suggests that, for many people, it’s their real religion. […]
The “patron saint” of today’s Democratic Socialists of America got his start with Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement. But for Day, prayer and the sacraments […]
This case was ultimately about what citizenship demands and permits. There will be a next case, and it will probably be much more troubling. […]
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