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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.
Politics & SocietyVantage Point
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.
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.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, prayed for God’s guidance in ‘this new chapter of our nation’s history’ as Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.