Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.
It’s long been a truism that Catholics don’t actually read the Bible — at least not as much or in the same way as their Protestant brethren. But they still encounter it.
The final twist in 'Conclave' is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.
“As Francis has magnificently shown us, a pope serves the People of God with a total self-giving, ad vitam: in sickness or in health, strong or frail, able-bodied or wheelchair-bound, clear in voice or raspy and breathless.”
As Republican elected officials dodge their own voters, some Democrats are trying to fill the gap—but they'll need a lot more than “People's Town Halls” to win back trust.
"stepping out to drink and drink a water welling up to eternal life to drink up a gluttony gulping for the cracked topsoil and the parched lips ten thousand miles away"
