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.

The drone wars

High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...

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...