Responding to Hate in the Aftermath of the Charlottesville Rally (Petra Turner)
Although I have called Charlottesville home for many years, as fate would have it, I wasn’t there when white supremacists and neo-Nazis came to town. That remove only seemed to make the disconnect...
View ArticleSigns of Hope for Labor Day (Matthew A. Shadle)
As Labor Day approaches this weekend, there are small signs of hope for the resurgence of the labor movement in the United States. A recent Gallup poll showed that support for labor unions among...
View ArticleFaith in Public Life: A Response to Dianne Feinstein and Steve Bannon...
During a Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said to Barrett, a practicing Catholic,...
View ArticleHeretics Against the God Named Empire – Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and...
During the 2016 presidential election President Donald Trump’s bombastic personality and overt bigotry centered practically all conversations and coverage around him. Millions of dollars of free media...
View ArticleA Problem Like Maria – Saving Lives in an Age of Climate Catastrophe...
When Hurricane Maria made landfall just south of Yabucoa Harbor in Puerto Rico in the early hours of Wednesday, September 20, it unleashed its force on an island already reeling from the impact of Irma...
View ArticleFalse Perceptions of Public Policy and Intellectual Conversion (Matthew A....
One of the most talked about provisions of the tax reform currently being debated by Congress is the elimination of the estate tax. Currently, estates of over $5,000,000 are taxed when the...
View ArticleThe Church and Racism: Cardinal Donald Wuerl on the Challenge of Racism Today...
November 1, 2017 marked the release of the newest pastoral letter authored by the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Donald Wuerl. This letter, The Challenge of Racism Today, is both a summation...
View ArticleA Just-War Analysis of Civilian Casualties in Iraq (Matthew A. Shadle)
On Thursday, The New York Times Magazine published a blockbuster investigative report by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal documenting civilian casualties caused by coalition airstrikes in the war against...
View ArticleArchbishop José Gomez: “Stay Woke” During Advent (Matthew A. Shadle)
On Wednesday, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles posted a series of tweets reminding Christians to remain “awake” during the season of Advent, alert to the impending coming of Jesus Christ. Notably,...
View ArticleOn Silence Breaking (Annie Selak)
Time magazine recently named “The Silence Breakers” their 2017 Person of the Year. These women and men— celebrities and relatively unknown names alike— spoke out against sexual harassment through...
View ArticleNature and Creation in Laudato Si’: The Autonomy of Earthly Affairs Rightly...
In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis proposes that we ought to look at the natural world in two distinct but complementary ways: as “nature” and as “creation.” As “nature,” we see the world...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Comprehensive Immigration Reform? (Matthew A. Shadle)
Last September, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program begun by President Barack Obama in 2012, which prevented individuals...
View ArticleThe Trump White House Immigration Proposal is Contrary to the Common Good...
On Thursday, the Trump White House made public its proposal for an immigration deal. The proposal has four main components. First, the plan would provide legal status, and eventually citizenship, not...
View ArticleToo Soon for Apologies? (Lorraine Cuddeback)
The #MeToo movement, begun last year in the wake of several high-profile revelations of sexual assault and harassment, continues to raise awareness on the issue, and has also begun to take structural...
View ArticleFaith in Public Life: A Response to Dianne Feinstein and Steve Bannon...
During a Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said to Barrett, a practicing Catholic,...
View ArticleHeretics Against the God Named Empire – Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and...
During the 2016 presidential election President Donald Trump’s bombastic personality and overt bigotry centered practically all conversations and coverage around him. Millions of dollars of free media...
View ArticleA Problem Like Maria – Saving Lives in an Age of Climate Catastrophe...
When Hurricane Maria made landfall just south of Yabucoa Harbor in Puerto Rico in the early hours of Wednesday, September 20, it unleashed its force on an island already reeling from the impact of Irma...
View ArticleFalse Perceptions of Public Policy and Intellectual Conversion (Matthew A....
One of the most talked about provisions of the tax reform currently being debated by Congress is the elimination of the estate tax. Currently, estates of over $5,000,000 are taxed when the...
View ArticleThe Church and Racism: Cardinal Donald Wuerl on the Challenge of Racism Today...
November 1, 2017 marked the release of the newest pastoral letter authored by the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Donald Wuerl. This letter, The Challenge of Racism Today, is both a summation...
View ArticleA Just-War Analysis of Civilian Casualties in Iraq (Matthew A. Shadle)
On Thursday, The New York Times Magazine published a blockbuster investigative report by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal documenting civilian casualties caused by coalition airstrikes in the war against...
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