Joe Biden

Biden is right to pull us out of Afghanistan. But he’s wrong to absolve us of blame in the country’s ongoing struggle.

The Church helps form consciences, and laypeople are asked to use them to discern what is possible and prudent in political life.

President Biden has repeatedly said that “housing is a human right.” He will now have a chance to show the country he means it.

The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go.

Targeting the president is a strange way for the bishops to regain an imagined moral purity publicly lost over the past two decades.

If United States bishops are truly interested in Eucharistic coherence, humility would serve them better than punishing pro-choice politicians.

Giving up on the bishops, even when they propose barring Catholic Democrats from Communion, won’t help solve the Church’s problems.

We all have a moral obligation to provide detainees with humane conditions regardless of where they come from or why they left.

There are still substantial structural barriers to getting vaccines to more people.

When it comes to designing federal family policy, simpler is better.

Justice Breyer should retire while he can be sure that a Democratic Senate will consider whomever Biden nominates.

Amid the breathless media chronicling of Biden’s “First Hundred Days,” his strategic guidance has received little attention.

Biden should keep his promise to reinstate higher refugee caps.

A new book charts the decline of religion in America.

It’s not true that the Democrats have “no good options” on immigration.

The many beneficial provisions of the American Rescue Plan remind people of the good that the government can do.

The Biden administration has the opportunity, and the obligation, to end the catastrophe in Yemen.

Some conservative Catholics and U.S. bishops are eager to exploit any controversy over Biden’s Catholicism, but in doing so they reveal their hypocrisy.

An uneven vaccine rollout reveals the price of failing to invest in public health.

What is it that our country should love?

Instead of behaving ecclesially, the USCCB has been behaving politically, ignoring fraternal relationships between bishops and fighting against the pope.

“Without a dedication to the truth of the equal sacred dignity and worth of every human being, life together is endangered, compromised, even impossible.”

Impeachment isn’t the only response to the raid on the Capitol.

Far-right websites catering to Catholics promote Christian nationalism under the guise of journalism.

Looking forward, the Biden administration will not only have to undo Trump’s disastrous foreign policy, but also proactively address the challenge posed by China.

The results of Georgia’s runoff elections will define the political future of the country for years to come.

Joe Biden has made it clear that responding to the pandemic with competence and consistency will be a top priority when he takes office.