Can you explain “peaceful transition"? Where is the “Red Menace”? Is there a “Latin vote”? Why does “crazy” = “evil”? Another week, harder questions
Reader Comments: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery; Supreme Court to Decide if Trump Above Law; Re-Open without Testing & Tracing IS Murder; Catholic Church Supports Trump; COVID and China; Federal Works Program; lots of On-Line Events and Resources; more...
The capitulation is complete. Without a whimper from any of his fellow bishops, the cardinal archbishop of New York has inextricably linked the Catholic Church in the United States to the Republican Party and, particularly, President Donald Trump.
A new book charts the life and legacy of the writer and activist, cofounder of the radical Catholic Worker movement that aimed to aid the poor and whom some hope will be made a saint.
Nearly two in five women of reproductive age may face restricted access to...abortion, contraception and sterilization, because they...live in a county where Catholic hospitals make up a high share of the market...
Liberation theology is still alive in Brazil, but it has lost a lot of ground. We must learn from past mistakes and create socialist popular democratic spaces from the base that challenge the brutal inequality of the capitalist pyramid.
“So many of us thought we were alone,” said a graduate of an all-girls Catholic school who said she was raped at a party. “But we weren’t.”
From the outset of his papacy, Francis sought to alter the landscape by vocalizing how capitalism is the primary cause of social injustice. In doing so he became a marked man. We’re witnessing one site in the larger struggle for cultural terrain.
A newly-discovered seven-page letter by Galileo is one of the earliest manifestos for scientific freedom. It documents Galileo's damage control at the start of his battle with the religious authorities.
Reader Comments: Guilty Please, Convictions, Rotten at the Top; Electoral Tactics; Puerto Rico - Readers Disagree with Portside Post; Space Force?; Catholic Church Sex Scandal; Dakota Access Charges Dropped; Strikes; Announcements; and more...
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