Donald Trump

Article

Bad for the Church, and the World

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.

By Massimo Faggioli

March 16, 2026

Vatican

Pope Leo XIV

Donald Trump

Religion

Article

The ‘National’ Pastime?

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

By Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

March 12, 2026

Article

Not Just a Mistake, a Crime

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.

By George Scialabba

March 10, 2026

Article

The First AI War

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

By John P. Slattery

March 8, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Article

Do I Take the Living Water?

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.

By Alejandra Oliva

March 7, 2026

Article

Vassalizing Europe

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

By Harrison Stetler

March 4, 2026

Article

The Mad King’s War

Trump’s war in Iran violates the Constitution, international law, and just-war principles. It has no clear objectives and no exit strategy.

By The Editors

March 3, 2026

War and Peace

Middle East

Donald Trump

Article

A Passport and a Baptismal Candle

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

By Amirah Orozco

February 28, 2026

Article

Beyond Transactional

Can any amount of Trumpian wrongdoing shake MAGA Evangelicals?

By John Fea

February 26, 2026

Donald Trump

Religion

Politics

Article

Do Catholic Legislators Vote Catholic?

… in the United States citing Catholic social teaching to justify their views and … Church’s best-kept secret. So it was surprising to see forty-four members of Congress, … stood in solidarity—another Catholic social teaching principle—with immigrants, and …

By Heidi Schlumpf

February 25, 2026

Politics

Religion

Donald Trump

Article

Ashes & Solidarity

For worshippers at a Chicago-area Ash Wednesday Mass, Trump's cruelty against migrants is nothing less than a spiritual crisis.

By Michelle Nickerson

February 24, 2026

Article

Don’t Leave It to the Experts

We need experts to help guide monetary policy—but expertise is no substitute for democratic deliberation over our values and priorities.

By Matt Mazewski

February 23, 2026

Economy

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

The Networker

The man may be dead, but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life.

By The Editors

February 19, 2026

Editorial

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

Leo’s Transatlantic Task

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

By Massimo Faggioli

February 14, 2026

Article

The Cruelty Inside

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

By Regina Munch

February 11, 2026

Immigration

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

ICE Wants You!

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

By Paul Moses

February 5, 2026

Politics

Donald Trump

Immigration

Article

A Multiracial Right?

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

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

February 5, 2026

Donald Trump

Religion

Politics

Article

The Politics of Empty Chairs

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

By Antonio Spadaro

February 3, 2026

International

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

Another Requiem in Minneapolis

The personal misery of a police state is hard for language to capture.

By Patricia Hampl

January 31, 2026

Politics

Immigration

Donald Trump

Article

Alex Pretti, Martyr

By his spontaneous example, Alex Pretti called all Americans, but especially American Christians, to account.

By Terence Sweeney

January 29, 2026

Article

‘And You Did Not Welcome Me’

From family separations to border walls to mass deportations, anti-immigrant vitriol has been at the heart of Donald Trump's political career. It must be resisted at every step.

By The Editors

January 28, 2026

Immigration

Donald Trump

Domestic Affairs

Article

‘How Will You Say No?’

A religious movement is underway to correct the sad course our country has taken. Catholics should be part of it.

By Heidi Schlumpf

January 28, 2026

Article

Cruel and Indiscriminate

For decades, U.S. sanctions have been crippling Venezuela—and the poor, not the politicians, have paid the greatest price.

By Joy Gordon

January 27, 2026

Article

The Little Hours of Delaney Hall

A prayer service outside a Newark DHS detention center was a reminder that, for Christians, every prison and every tyrant is a temporary thing.

By Kevin Gallagher

January 27, 2026

Article

Spellbound

Forty percent of Americans are in thrall to Donald Trump. Breaking down the right-wing media’s Iron Curtain will be a very long-term project.

By George Scialabba

January 26, 2026

Donald Trump

Economy

Politics

Article

Waugh Warned Us

Donald Trump bears an uncanny resemblance to Rex Mottram, the businessman and opportunistic British politician in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited.’

By Paul Baumann

January 26, 2026

Donald Trump

Politics

Books

Article

Havens for the Human

Most universities have long ceased to live up to the name. It's time to sever the humanities and liberal arts from the business of STEM research.

By Antón Barba-Kay

January 26, 2026

Article

State of Siege

Five years after whipping up a loose army of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Trump has deployed a well-funded paramilitary force to execute his authoritarian agenda.

By The Editors

January 25, 2026

Article

The Damage Has Been Done

Whatever comes of Trump's mad campaign to take Greenland, it’s the island's residents who will bear the brunt of it.

By Morten Høi Jensen

January 23, 2026

Article

Renee Good’s Dignity

As the Trump administration moves the country further into fascism, the times demand an even stronger defense of the human dignity of all life—including Renee Good’s.

By Heidi Schlumpf

January 16, 2026

Donald Trump

Immigration

Bishops

Article

A Year of Contrasts

2025 saw the eclipse of Donald Trump as the most important American in the world.

By Heidi Schlumpf

December 30, 2025

Article

A Dangerous Distraction

ICE unmasked is still ICE. The real problem isn’t the agency's wardrobe, but its mission.

By Matt Mazewski

December 23, 2025

Politics

Donald Trump

Immigration

Article

Smothering the Press

Trump feels entitled not only to his own “facts” but to a docile press corps that will repeat them uncritically.

By The Editors

December 18, 2025

Article

Big Ideas, No Scruples

To understand this troubling moment in American democracy, look at the history and making of the New Right.

By Matt McManus

December 18, 2025

Politics

Far-right

Donald Trump

Article

My First Protest

Protests have always inspired me, but for most of my life, they’ve been for other people. Donald Trump changed that.

By Michael Peppard

December 11, 2025

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

The Real Christopher Lasch

Conservatives embrace Christopher Lasch’s critique of the elites. But they neglect his equally searing indictment of capitalism and consumerism.

By Paul Baumann

December 8, 2025

Economy

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

‘Keep Doing the Thing’

For historian Timothy Snyder, no one person, party, or tactic is going to save democracy. It’s going to take all of us.

By Heidi Schlumpf

December 4, 2025

Politics

Donald Trump

Religion

Article

Shades of Kent State

By sending the National Guard to cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago, Trump is trying to foment conflict, not defuse it. We've seen this playbook before.

By Paul Baumann

December 2, 2025

Politics

Culture

Donald Trump

Article

A Bully Abroad

Trump's approach to Latin America is characterized by lies, the use of extortive and illegal force, corrupt influences, and know-nothing leadership.

By The Editors

November 20, 2025

Editorial

Latin America

Donald Trump

Article

No Kings but Jesus

We are not simply Americans who have “No Kings.” We are Christians, who have no king but Jesus.

By William T. Cavanaugh

November 19, 2025

Religion

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

Is Populism a Neoliberalism?

Neoliberalism now defines the political mainstream, but where do its boundaries end? Author Quinn Slobodian traces the varied landscape of neoliberal thought.

By Gareth Dale

November 17, 2025

Article

Recovering Our Vision of the Poor

The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.

By Terence Sweeney

November 9, 2025

Article

Roads Not Taken

In 1998, the Christian right was at a crossroads. Tragically, it took a path leading into the arms of Donald Trump.

By John Fea

November 7, 2025

Article

Shameful Warrior

Pete Hegseth's “warrior ethos” may not only cost civilian lives but incur moral injury for American soldiers and shame for the nation.

By Kenneth R. Himes, OFM

October 28, 2025

Politics

War and Peace

Donald Trump

Article

The Bishops and ICE

Trump's political theater, which threatens the dignity and safety of Chicago migrants, calls for condemnation by the bishops.

By Isabella Simon

October 25, 2025

Immigration

Bishops

Donald Trump

Article

The Gaza Ceasefire

Donald Trump promises a "historic dawn" for a new Middle East, but his plan for the reconstruction of Gaza seems more concerned with "economic integration" than human rights.

By Miles Doyle

October 23, 2025

Politics

Middle East

Donald Trump

Article

Transatlantic Trumpism

European history shows how political messianism can destroy the souls of churches. Could that happen in the United States?

By Massimo Faggioli

October 15, 2025

Article

What Real Courage Looks Like

Daryl Russell Grigsby’s book, grounded in a tradition of Black social justice Catholicism, brings to life the stories of those who try to make of the world a garden.

By Anna Keating

October 15, 2025

Feature

Fear Not

At a People's Mass outside a reported ICE hub, clergy and community members preached a God who stands with the oppressed.

By Heidi Schlumpf

September 24, 2025

Article

In Plain Sight

Donald Trump built a political career on manipulating conspiracy theories, but his failure to get a handle on the Epstein case has exposed a growing rift among the MAGA faithful.

By Miles Doyle

September 22, 2025

Donald Trump

Politics