After a brutal election that sometimes felt like a civil war, this Thanksgiving may be harder for some more than others. For us Catholics, however, there is one thing that may help us.
It isn't easy trying to make sense of Trump's Cabinet selections. But a kind of logic emerges as soon as you realize two things: Trump is someone who hires down and he thinks of politics as essentially performative.
The pope is known for his spicy way of saying things. And he speaks his mind. There are times, however, when it is better to say nothing than to throw out statements that sound designed to make headlines.
Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia communicates to the reader not just his thoughts about theology, but his love for the church, which shines through precisely because of its role in the divine plan.
The pope's words, said at a mosque in the most populous Muslim nation on earth, invite all of us Catholics to think about how we encounter persons of other religions.
It is an interesting question why The New York Times tends to mostly highlight conservative Catholics in its opinion pages, like the recent op-ed about the influence of conservative converts to Catholicism.
George Weigel "lumps together" complicated history to attack the CCHD's model of community organizing, a perspective NCR's Michael Sean Winters calls "nothing more than ideological reductionisms and gross caricatures."
When JD Vance converted to Catholicism, he evidently missed the session on church teaching about human dignity, and the one about church history, and the one on biblical exegesis regarding welcoming the stranger.