Donald Trump

Catholic postliberals keen to dismiss dignity as an empty category should consult the Church's Magisterium—and listen to the cries of the vulnerable.

The memory of almost being hanged by Trump supporters doesn’t appear to have clarified Mike Pence’s conscience.

Trump is the sort of miser you come across in some especially ghoulish fairy tale. Will he ever get his comeuppance?

The Democratic Party needs centrists capable of self-criticism and leftists capable of self-discipline. The current state of the discourse militates against both.

No one should be on the sidelines in the fight against hunger—especially when the GOP's fight against the hungry is being so ruthlessly waged.

Recent responses to MAGA cruelty point to how ethnic memories can remain a potent political force.

Ohio has known hucksters like J. D. Vance before. The state has a long memory for men who climb the ladder and then kick it down after them.

The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes?

The United States, on its 250th birthday, is a country in decline. American Catholics should embrace this sour semiquincentennial as a moment for discernment.

American Christianity has been captured by Trumpism over the past decade. How can we recover from his politics of resentment?

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When J. D. Vance discusses his faith journey, he is careful not to offend any constituencies he may need in a presidential run.

As the midterm elections approach, the Church must embrace more explicitly political strategies to combat Trump's war on immigrants.

Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.

Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.

Whether Democrats secure a narrow majority in the upcoming midterms or thrash Trump’s GOP, successful female candidates will be central to the story.

Leo’s Catholic critics tend to focus on just-war theory, while ignoring the support of the last several popes for international law and a world governing authority.

The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.

Trump keeps pushing policies that are opposed by Catholic teaching—and this U.S.-born pope doesn’t seem to be willing to keep quiet about them.

Franz Kafka’s sword-wielding Lady Liberty seems like an all-too-fitting symbol of what America has become in Trump’s second term.

President Trump’s supporters have offered some implausible scenarios on the likely outcome of his war with Iran—as well as some wild justifications for it.

The Church is gaining credibility for speaking up for Gospel values in the public square—even when it means criticizing a president that nearly 60 percent of Catholic voters chose.

Trump's 2027 budget proposal is a scandalous document, evincing a total disregard for anyone who isn’t rich.

It’s too soon to determine whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will last. In the meantime, the Lebanese have their dead to bury.

For Pope Leo to visit the United States under present circumstances would be far more scandalous than his simply staying away.

Community organizing is the Resurrection unfolding in the here and now.

Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries this Lent has meant letting Mary guide me to the gates of an ICE detention facility.

Becoming a faith community means allowing the faces of the displaced to enter our liturgies and our civic imagination.

The bishops filed an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship. Conservative critics aren’t happy.

Trump has made the world less stable, alienated our allies, and further degraded the moral standing of the United States.

Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.

While Trump wants to narrow who qualifies as a citizen, the World Baseball Classic offers a different idea of belonging.

The war on Iran is yet another reminder that the world will never be safe until the United States accepts and abides by international law.

Donald Trump will go down in history as the president who made AI a weapon of war.

Up until now, the bargain of Christianity has not always felt worth it to me. My work as an immigration legal-service provider has changed that.

With U.S. and Israeli bombs dropping on Tehran, Europe is once again cowed into silence because of its addiction to American power.

This Lent, let us learn from St. Óscar Romero about the meaning of Christian citizenship under a repressive regime.

Can any amount of Trumpian wrongdoing shake MAGA Evangelicals?

A new scorecard assesses whether members of Congress support legislation that advances Catholic social teaching. Catholic Republicans do not perform well.

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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.

How will Pope Leo navigate a growing hostility between the United States and the European continent?

The Trump administration is constructing a network of concentration camps on U.S. soil. Have the American people seen enough?

Under Trump, state propaganda marshals Americana in the service of nativism.

It might be time to question the assumption that the Democrats will always be the more diverse of the two major parties.

By exiting international organizations, Trump creates a void that will be filled by competition, force, and fragmentation.