It’s far too early to be weighing in on the 2020 presidential election. After all, we still have more than a year of madness to go before we cast ballots next fall. But ignoring Beto O’Rourke’s comments about revoking the tax exemption
Politics should not be ignored, but it is better to love others than convert their political beliefs
We Americans are obsessed and tunnel-visioned. Look at the newsstand in any supermarket or drugstore. I guarantee that many magazines will feature stories about the British royal family. It is easy to assume that Britain is the only hereditary monarchy left on
I recently attended a meeting about paid family leave in the White House West Wing with Ivanka Trump. Although I cannot report major details, I can share some thoughts. Overall, I was encouraged. Over the years, I have been around politicians and
Kittens and infants are cute, playful and highly dependent on their mothers. Recently both received the attention of Congress. On March 7, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) introduced the Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now (KITTEN) Act to prevent the USDA from euthanizing
Many people say that anti-Catholicism passed out of American politics when John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, won the presidency in 1960 despite the religious bias that had been brought against him in the campaign. Well, if anti-Catholicism as a political issue collapsed
Polarization in the United States has increased dramatically in recent decades. At a Georgetown University event on polarization in a “broken Church and nation,” John Carr, the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, described the grim landscape
With Democrats retaking control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Republicans retaining its majority in the U.S. Senate, the 2018 midterm election results offer a mixed bag for Catholic voters. On the bright side, the pro-life movement may find it easier
Of the many challenges awaiting new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh upon his swearing in, very few people likely expected a witch’s curse to be among them. And yet that is precisely what a Brooklyn, New York, occult bookstore purported to deliver
There have been a lot of important discussions and efforts taken in recent years regarding bullying, and for good reason. It’s a big problem: the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that close to 21 percent of students report being a victim