Searching for Decency in US Politics
The bipartisan spirit of vengeance and extremism now animating US politics threatens to turn America into the superpower version of those unhappy places where seeking high office can land you in prison.
Results from Tag: 'politics'
How to Think About Politics, and How So Many People Don’t
COMMENTARY: Catholics can approach political issues with a clear set of principles, but must go a long way to figure out how to incarnate those principles in the public law and policy.
Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Flip-Flops on Abortion
According to the statement from “Team Kennedy,” published on his campaign website, “Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by an NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair.”
An American Leftist Gets Elected in Italy
COMMENTARY: What Elly Schlein’s ascendancy says about our current political moment.
Water Is Thicker Than Blood
COMMENTARY: Our baptism into Christ’s passion and death purifies our political passions and saves us from deadly idolatry.
When Elections Don’t Go Our Way
Perhaps the best resistance to bad legislation and cultural decline is to live a quiet life of joy, hope and love at home, rooted in faith in Jesus Christ and bolstered by the sacraments.
What Does the Catholic Church Say About Elected Officials?
COMMENTARY: Voters — especially before elections — have great hope in princes, as long as they’re our princes and not the other side’s
Pope Francis Offers Guidance to Young Christians in Politics
The Pope outlined his vision for the renewal of politics in a May 16 address to members of the Chemin Neuf Politics Fraternity, an international group of people age 18 to 35 who want to ‘be active in politics according to the heart of God.’
America Needs to Want a Catholic Politics
Catholics need to offer something simple, radical and real — and something that can transform hearts and change what Americans want.
