Politics

American dreams deferred

Catholic charities struggle to help families meet basic needs. “Here in San Jose, there’s a street that they call the ‘empty street’...

Postively pro-life

Catholics must focus on the battle for hearts and minds to be successful in the effort to end abortion. The United States will make history this month...

Mea maxima culpa

Among the many victims of the Iraq war have been our own fellow Catholics. I have a confession to make: Back in 2003, when the Bush administration directed our...

All in favor?

If there’s anything that will turn you off democracy, it has to be a U.S. presidential election. From obnoxious robo-calls to venomous attack ads to an inbox...

Now that’s a cold war!

Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation. Retreating ice briefly turned the Arctic circle into an...

Let my people stay

How to deal with the immigration “problem”? Give people a real choice on migration. It may surprise red-white-and-blue Americans fixated on...

Between Iraq and no place

Iraqis are on the move away from their broken nation. Who will be responsible for them? In the buildup to the Iraq invasion, then Secretary of State Colin...

Reel politics

Hollywood tells us that cleaning up Washington depends on the integrity of those we send there. But that’s only part of the story. Soon the 2008...

Promises to keep

Barack Obama’s election was historic, but can his presidency be great? At a time of historic economic, social, and strategic challenges, the election of...