Politics

  • JD Vance’s conversion: politics and Catholicism don’t mix

    Baptized in 2019, Vance frames his Catholic conversion around Bonhoeffer’s “cheap grace” concept while his politics tell another story.

    JD Vance’s conversion: politics and Catholicism don’t mix
  • Gen Z Mormon women leaving way faster than expected

    New survey data shows Gen Z women raised Mormon are staying at far lower rates than any prior generation, driven by politics, purity culture and power.

    Gen Z Mormon women leaving way faster than expected
  • Faith is back in Democratic politics

    After decades of watching Democrats dodge the God question, perhaps, finally, they may have an answer.

    Faith is back in Democratic politics
  • Pope Leo doesn’t mess around

    Vatican officials pushed back hard after Trump’s ambassador tried to frame the pope’s political criticism as merely secular.

    Pope Leo doesn’t mess around
  • Doing theology in times of political crisis

    The collision of political sovereignty and ecclesial authority exposes fundamental questions of legitimacy within a fragmented normative landscape. Appeals to tradition obscure irreducible complexity, crisis functions as rhetorical apparatus, and the inexorable dynamics of imperial decline reconfigure authority itself—compelling discernment between authentic moral critique and instrumentalised religion.

    Doing theology in times of political crisis
  • Absolutely Right

    Two voices echo across time: one calling for battle, another for God’s kingdom on earth. Between them lies the clash of worldviews shaping our age, where populist leaders and faithful dreamers compete to write the story of tomorrow.

    Absolutely Right

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