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Trump-appointed border czar, Tom Homan, is a life-long Catholic, but does his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?
Almost exactly ten years after I had first considered becoming Catholic for intellectual reasons, I became one for interpersonal reasons.

A War of Whim

Trump has made the world less stable, alienated our allies, and further degraded the moral standing of the United States.
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan about the history of sacrifice, from the sacred to the secular.
We need experts to help guide monetary policy—but expertise is no substitute for democratic deliberation over our values and priorities.
The man may be dead, but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life.
Individual retirement accounts like the 401(k) have become the backbone of our retirement system. They are a key contributor to the precarity unraveling the social fabric.
Christian Smith wants Notre Dame to be pure. But shrines are never pure—and Notre Dame is an American Catholic shrine.