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Co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla of the Alternative for Germany party hold a press conference in Berlin Sept. 2, 2024, after state elections in the Saxony and Thuringia regions of eastern Germany. (OSV News/Lisi Niesner, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bridget Ryder
German Catholic bishops say that even where the party has not tipped into extremism, it has failed to reform itself of such tendencies. They charge that a nationalism incompatible with Christianity has become the AfD’s animating ideology.
Middle-aged Black woman, seen from behind, sits alone in a pew during Catholic Mass (iStock/abalcazar)
FaithLast Take
William I. Orbih
As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bishop Evelio Menjivar
The church remembers Christ’s death on a cross in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week, but some people actually experience the Passion in a tangible and personal way in their very lives.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J. Kevin Appleby
To stop the important work of refugee resettlement is to lose part of the church’s identity in the United States.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The administration's attacks on immigrants imperil the rights and freedom of all Americans.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
A joint Catholic-Evangelical report found that an overwhelming majority of people impacted by the Trump administration's mass deportations are Christian.