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He is building on the legacy of Pope Francis, but has turned out to be better placed than Francis was to shift the direction of the U.S. Church, and not only because of his national origin (or the fact that he’s a baseball fan)....
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Pope Leo XIV has improved US–Vatican relations, and the American Catholic right that opposed Francis has softened toward him, yet he refuses to be cast as an anti-Trump voice....
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A conservative official invoked God in the context of war and a supposedly liberal pope rebuked him. The exchange is then cast as a political disagreement, or at most as an instance of religion being deployed on both sides of a geopolitical conflict....
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Why the U.S. government’s withdrawal from international organisations is bad news...
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37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and a U.S. citizen....
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Against the idolatry of the nation...
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I wrote a few months ago how Pope Leo XIV “Needs No Divisions.” His election augured a pretty clear opportunity to move past the culture wars and give an alternative to the brutishness of the Trump era. But those who do need divisions have told us they won’t go...
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The White House is no longer a centre of governance but a narrative factory....
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Why Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is in fact a betrayal of the United States....
He is building on the legacy of Pope Francis, but has turned out to be better placed than Francis was to shift the direction of the U.S. Church, and not only because of his national origin (or the fact that he’s a baseball fan)....
Pope Leo XIV has improved US–Vatican relations, and the American Catholic right that opposed Francis has softened toward him, yet he refuses to be cast as an anti-Trump voice....
A conservative official invoked God in the context of war and a supposedly liberal pope rebuked him. The exchange is then cast as a political disagreement, or at most as an instance of religion being deployed on both sides of a geopolitical conflict....
Why the U.S. government’s withdrawal from international organisations is bad news...
37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and a U.S. citizen....
Against the idolatry of the nation...
I wrote a few months ago how Pope Leo XIV “Needs No Divisions.” His election augured a pretty clear opportunity to move past the culture wars and give an alternative to the brutishness of the Trump era. But those who do need divisions have told us they won’t go...
The White House is no longer a centre of governance but a narrative factory....
Why Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is in fact a betrayal of the United States....