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March 2021

March 12, 2021

Immigrants: They Need Us, and We Need Them

They come because most often they and their families are extremely poor, and they cannot...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society

Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and...

January 2021

January 19, 2021

Words for Those Feeling Disinherited

Trump’s anti-other rhetoric has had the effect of making hatred acceptable. He has created convenient...

January 17, 2021

Yes, It’s About the White Supremacy

In this case, the first and maybe most lasting images we got cast the “rioters”...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

Yes, There Is a Place in the Democratic Party for Pro-Life Voters

Faced with the alternative of an administration that has proven itself willing to flout fundamental...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?

If human life is the thing that you value most, you have to do more...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

History May Not Repeat, But It Rhymes: Trump’s Tulsa Rally

Eventually, Trump’s search for scapegoats (“really bad people”) will backfire. Yet the damage he has already...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

It’s Not the Divisiveness That Is the Problem

Dial the clock back sixty years: were we united, as a nation, at a time...

February 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

So What If Jesus Wasn’t Poor or a Refugee?

The corrupt prelates who persecuted the mendicants wanted to water down the radicality of Jesus’s...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

Which Families Matter? Rethinking the Idea of “Parental Rights”

For Christians, especially, who invented the term “family values”: if we genuinely believe in protecting...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

What If Everyone Could Hold a Migrant Child? Reflections on Volunteering at the Border

Hold your own child or grandchild close for a moment and imagine how you would...