What will America become? The migration issue we confront today will greatly determine our future self-awareness and identity as a nation. It cannot be denied that we are a nation of immigrants. The current negative national narrative on migration has been influenced
The 20th century American philosopher John Dewey was no fan of “dogmatic” thinking. To be dogmatic for Dewey was to give up suppleness of mind, excluding the possibilities of new experience. It was to hold onto something that explained away the mystery
Whenever we talk about the Church and “numbers,” it seems we brace ourselves for bad news. Young people are leaving the Church. The American Church is struggling to produce priestly vocations. Fewer people are attending Mass. Fewer people believe in God, or
For Catholics, the observance of Memorial Day echoes and combines elements of secular and religious observances half a year away, in November — Veterans Day on Nov. 11, All Saints’ Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day on Nov. 2. As
Imagine that the 180 countries having diplomatic relations with the United States situated their official representatives not in Washington, D.C., but in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Therefore, if Belgium wished to avoid tariffs in selling Belgian lace to American retailers, a rather non-controversial matter,
I’m always torn. The guy — it’s always a guy — is on the corner panhandling. The question is: To give, or not to give? To say something, or say nothing? I think of the old Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby”: “All the
The April 5 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a meatpacking facility in Grainger County, Tennessee, in which 10 people were arrested, was nothing new. Similar raids have been conducted under the last several administrations, going back decades. Nor was it
Partisan mayhem has crept into everything, and a more penitential posture would go a long way
Tweets lay bare an extreme view about trafficking that does nothing to empower women or girls
The Gospels speak of preconditions for the Second Coming that have not yet occurred in history
At Pentecost, Christians are healed of the awful tendency to cultivate division in the world