To support repeal of Obamacare without replacement is to support taking health care away from tens of million Americans, knowing they'll be left high and dry.
Cardinal Burke and Steve Bannon share an ominous clash-of-civilizations ideology. They fear progressive movements. Their “meeting of hearts” is nothing to celebrate.
Signs of xenophobia are raising the old ghost of “White Australia,” the shared belief in the nation as an outpost of white civilization in the middle of the Pacific.
The weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration have offered a mix of extremism and ineptitude that has vindicated the darkest suspicions about how he would govern.
Many American Catholics have ancestors who were the beneficiaries of the Immigration Bureau’s advocacy. Will they support the bishops who speak out today?
We have entered a time of authoritarian leadership that exalts the powerful and disdains the weak and vulnerable. This is the antithesis of Christianity.
Trump's administration appears to believe that health care, education, and housing are nothing more than commodities to be delivered by the market, or not at all.
No outreach to those who had opposed him. No acknowledgment of the achievements of his predecessors. Only an unrelievedly bleak view of current conditions.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s presence at the inauguration should prompt sober reflection about the role of faith leaders when it comes to their relationship with power.
Americans streaming south to explore the latest vacation hotspot should not be surprised to hear so many Cubans still saying, in Russian, “Spasiba” (“thank you").
Judging from Donald Trump’s cabinet choices, it turns out that a narcissistic billionaire who doesn’t pay taxes might not be a working-class champion after all.
Here’s what bothers me: Long before Trump came along we were entirely free to say merry Christmas to each other. Our political leaders could say it, too.
Nothing would do more to energize social-justice movements than a broad-based coalition able to break through the impasse of abortion politics in the United States.
What might be more important about Trump's election is that the phenomenon seems part of a broader “populist” movement sweeping through most advanced countries.
That the senior ranks of the incoming Trump administration have taken on a military hue is both logical and deeply troubling. It should give Americans pause.
Losing to the “atheistic progressive agenda” might be good for the American church. Just look to that specter haunting the nightmares of U.S. conservatives: Sweden.
Supporters said Donald Trump would surround himself with competent people and not just diehard loyalists and bomb-throwers. For the most part, this hasn't happened.
Donald Trump's cavalier and arrogant response to the CIA's finding that Russia actively intervened in our election only deepens our fears about his win.
