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Solidarity Lost

One hundred years after the restoration of national sovereignty, Poland is failing to preserve the values forged in its struggles against totalitarianism

March 19, 2019

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Standing Up to Trump?

The twelve GOP senators who voted against the emergency declaration are merely outliers in a spineless party that continues to placate the president.

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

March 18, 2019

Donald Trump

Election 2020

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Unflinching

One of the most brilliant and influential Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century, G.E.M. Anscombe defended traditional doctrine with a clear, earnest voice.

March 18, 2019

Contraception mandate

War and Peace

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March 22, 2019

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Finding Christ in Other Faces

Powell and Pressburger’s seminal 1947 film about a group of Anglican nuns in India offers more than melodrama, as secondary characters reveal the face of Christ.

March 15, 2019

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A Language Problem

Yes, wrongdoing needs to be condemned. But Democrats can’t win over the electorate without actually connecting with it.

March 14, 2019

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Teilhard & Eugenics

More research is needed to define Teilhard’s moral vision, especially as we consider the needs of the oppressed, outcast, and differently abled.

By John P. Slattery

March 12, 2019

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Politics

The Coming Populist Showdown

Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocrats

By Sam Adler-Bell

March 4, 2019

Religion

Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

By Kathleen Hill

February 25, 2019

Culture

Giving Up Extremes

As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

March 3, 2019