Given his upcoming schedule—including perhaps meeting with Donald Trump—it’s appropriate Pope Francis set off from a basilica that honors ecumenical witness
I don’t think I’m unusual in being a father who had expected to live a life in conformity with the law and comfort with the society in which he was raising a family
DC Talk’s “Jesus Freak” articulated the way the evangelical church thought of itself: scorned by mainstream culture and the victim of violence rather than its agent.
Donald Trump’s admonition that journalists “shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name” would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
The grass-roots vitality Trump has unleashed against him in just a month is already close to matching the positive enthusiasm Obama nurtured in his 2008 campaign.
It will be said that Trump was elected and thus deserves some benefit of the doubt. Isn’t it rash to declare him unfit after so little time? The answer is no.
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?
