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People hold signs during a candlelight prayer vigil Dec. 8, 2019, held to oppose the Trump administration's plan to reinstate the federal death penalty. (CNS photo/David Maung)
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
What is the moral imperative behind the government’s urgency to hasten the death of its citizens?
Politics & SocietyEditorials
Matt Malone, S.J.
The faithful must stand against measures that dehumanize asylum seekers and welcome immigrants among us.
President Donald Trump greets Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
J.D. Long García
President Trump seemed to acknowledge the problematic beginning of his relationship with President López Obrador when he said their friendship developed “against all odds.”
(CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters; CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Broken down between white and Hispanic Catholics, the numbers show a stark divide.
FaithFaith and Reason
Thomas Graff
Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.
In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.