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Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. (OSV News photo/Brendan Mcdermid Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
Vengeance and grievance are nihilistic motivators. We need to ground ourselves in joy and gratitude if we are to promote unity and peace.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kristen Day
The abortion issue is emblematic of a larger problem within the Democratic Party—an obsession with ideological purity that has proven to be both counterproductive and divisive.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill McCormick, S.J.
For many Catholic Democrats, President Biden is the zenith of public faith. For many Catholic Republicans, he represents a betrayal of the Gospel. The truth is somewhere in between, and that is OK.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
J.D. Long García
The difference between the GOP and Democratic party platforms is acute on the hot-button topic of immigration, an issue on which the U.S. bishops have weighed in consistently over the last 20 years.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks at a campaign rally on Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Logan M. Isaac
JD Vance should publicly retract his comment about Mr. Walz “abandoning his unit” lest it lend credence to false guilt felt by many of our military veterans.
A get-out-the-vote display, with candidate signs among bales of hay, at the Niobrara County Fair in Lusk, Wyo., on July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Beacom
The “weird” meme, popularized by the Harris-Walz campaign, goes hand in hand with a longstanding ridicule of rural America, and it is punching down on some of the most disadvantaged people in our society.