Donald Trump
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A ‘rupture in the world order’
If today’s moral disorder is embedded in political, economic, and religious structures, then individual repentance alone is insufficient. The response must be equally structural — public, organized, and sustained.
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I’m giving up Trump for Lent
Lent is traditionally a season of penance, prayer and self-examination. For Tom Reese, the most honest act of penance he can manage is admitting that his Trump consumption has become compulsive, corrosive and entirely optional — and, while not claiming perfect resolve, choosing, for 40 days, to stop.
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US bishops speak on racism, silent on women
The bishops’ silence on misogyny may stem from false theology: the Arian heresy that women can’t image Christ because Jesus was male. This ancient error continues to trap church leaders in an all-male clerical bubble that prevents them from fully defending women.
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Trump absent from US Bishops’ mass deportation statement
An urgent message on immigration nearly failed to reach the agenda at the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. Only behind closed doors did leaders push to address the crisis, ultimately empowering four bishops to draft the hard-won pastoral statement.
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Ten takeaways from Pope Leo’s first interviews
Pope Leo XIV’s first interviews reveal a leader who listens carefully yet holds firm lines. Women leaders will be promoted, but ordination to the diaconate is not on the table. LGBTQ Catholics are welcomed in Pope Leo XIV’s Church, but doctrine on sexuality and marriage remains unchanged.
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Selective Catholicism: contradictions of faith and politics
Catholic social teaching on immigrants, the poor and creation finds little space in the Catholic right. While bishops accompany immigrants to hearings and teach about environmental stewardship, many Catholics dismiss such concerns as “radical left politics,” narrowing faith to partisan agendas.
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