The 2022 midterm elections held on Tuesday, Nov. 8, will decide the balance of congressional power for the remainder of President Joe Biden’s current term in the White House. And those results may lead to a mixed bag of legislative results on
Ahead of Election Day, Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills looks at what the Church does and doesn’t demand from Catholics regarding our political thinking: “Catholicism … doesn’t claim that bits of Scripture or doctrinal teachings require specific public policies. The Catholic
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez looks back with disgust over the conversation that took place after Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was attacked in his home last weekend: “People advancing conspiracy theories — publicly, for all the world to see, with their names attached.
OSV contributing editor Russell Shaw examines the recent surge in political violence across the country — and the perception that the violence is only coming from the right. Shaw writes: “A few days ago, Americans awoke to the news that a man
In 1982, Joe Biden, then a U.S. senator representing Delaware and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted in favor of a proposed amendment that would have declared that the Constitution “does not secure a right to abortion.” The amendment was
A reader asks: “I am writing in response to and requesting an update from you on the Our Sunday Visitor article published two years ago, ‘Should pro-abortion politicians be excommunicated?’ You concluded that there was a need for bishops to issue comprehensive
On November 8, thousands of women and men will compete for public office in contests that raise a host of local, state and national issues. But many voters will vote less on issues as such than on their own perception of the
"A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern."
With the U.S. midterm elections just around the corner, it seems timely to recall these words from a homily Pope Francis delivered at a daily
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes: “It wasn’t all that long ago in contemporary American political history when conservatives were shocked that leading feminists excused Bill Clinton’s abuse of power with an intern while president of the United States as ‘one free grope.’ Of
Recently, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, attended a performance of Will Arbery’s celebrated play “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. When the play premiered three years ago off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in