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Steven P. Millies is professor of public theology and director of the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union.
FaithShort Take
Steven P. Millies
Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to overcome.
FaithFaith and Reason
Steven P. Millies
Most modern constitutional states today describe themselves as republics. Such republics sound as though they have a lot in common with Catholic social teaching. They do.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (seen here speaking to his nation via smartphone) has emerged as a worldwide hero for democracy, but there are indications that the vitality of our democracy has diminished in the United States. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Steven P. Millies
The United States should not abandon a foreign policy that promotes free self-determination around the globe. But people who have lost faith in democracy at home may be on to something.
FaithFaith and Reason
Steven P. Millies
Sunday, Nov. 14, marks 25 years since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death. Do Catholics today want a church that is “alive and rooted, public in its service to the city” and the world?
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin speaks with reporters on the steps of his Chicago residence just before his departure for Rome to meet with Pope John Paul II, Sept. 23, 1996.
FaithShort Take
Steven P. Millies
On this 25th anniversary of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death, we can look back to him for guidance as we try to find a way out of the hostility toward dialogue we have been trapped in since the 1990s.
FaithNews Analysis
Steven P. Millies
At one point Ronald Reagan needed a powerful ally who could help him hold on to Catholic voters — and he found that ally in John Paul II. Today, Joe Biden faces a similar situation.
FaithFaith and Reason
Steven P. Millies
The Catholic Church in the United States is in danger of losing its relevance if its presentation of the Gospel is alien to the world in which people live.
Elizabeth Koroma protests in the Rhode Island Statehouse on May 14 against state legislation aimed at expanding legal abortion. (CNS photo/Brian Fraga, Rhode Island Catholic)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Steven P. Millies
Steven P. Millies: A half-century of the U.S. bishops calling abortion the ‘preeminent issue’ in politics leaves Catholics unprepared for a post-Roe landscape.
AT THE TABLE. Members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees hash out differences between versions of legislation in the L.B.J. Room at the U.S. Capitol in February 2009.
Steven P. Millies
The pope challenges all of us to rethink our relationship to politics.
“Christ in Front of Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy, 1881
Steven P. Millies
Fun fact: In the sixth century, the Coptic Church proclaimed Pontius Pilate a saint and a martyr.