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...
Politics
Discover how Catholic social teaching and politics intersect and how Catholics engage political issues through advocacy, education, and actions guided by faith and social teaching.
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...
Catholic institutions should play host to this year’s electoral contests. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Communion, election-year...
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...
Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation. Retreating ice briefly turned the Arctic circle into an...
How to deal with the immigration “problem”? Give people a real choice on migration. It may surprise red-white-and-blue Americans fixated on...
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...
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...
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...
Catholics have picked the winner of the popular vote for nine presidential elections in a row. Will they do it again in 2008? A few years ago, when Washington...






