The challenges of Eucharistic coherence and abortion require distinct responses from American bishops. Trying to address them together will only harm them both.
Too often during the pandemic, the Church encouraged us to resent the inconveniences of social distancing instead of supporting us in bearing this cross together.
With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.
In Russia, the state uses the Orthodox Church to advance its revisionist agenda, while the Church uses the state to fulfill its own hegemonic ambitions.
“Racism is a system designed to mess with your head, and I think Black people need to forgive ourselves and one another for the different ways we respond to it.”
